Bruno Stroszek is released from prison and warned to stop drinking. He has few skills and fewer expectations: with a glockenspiel and an accordion, he ekes out a living as a street musician. He befriends Eva, a prostitute down on her luck and they join his neighbor, Scheitz, an elderly eccentric, when he leaves Germany to live in Wisconsin.
Among other things, Mr. Herzog visually dazzles us while he's pulling the rug from under our feet.
– Vincent Canby,
New York Times,
20 May 2003
fresh:
We watch with a kind of fascination, because Herzog cuts loose from narrative and follows his characters through the relentless logic of their adventure.
– Roger Ebert,
Chicago Sun-Times,
19 Jul 2002
fresh:
Stroszek is part moral tale and part absurdist comedy.