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Fateless (2006)
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Reviews Counted:62
Fresh:57
Rotten:5
Average Rating:7.9/10
Consensus: Beautifully photographed and majestically scored, Fateless is a haunting account of one boy's experiences during the Holocaust and his journey to pick up the pieces in the war's aftermath.
Theatrical Release:05-05-2006
Synopsis: FATELESS is based on Nobel Prize-winner Imre Kertesz' stunning novel about a Hungarian Jewish boy's experiences during and after the Nazi occupation of Hungary. One day, Gyuri Koves (Marcell Nagy)... [More]
Reviews for Fateless
Is the survivor entitled to ordinary human happiness -- or is this human emotion an act of disloyalty and diminution? These questions are a vital part of this outstanding film's dark and sombre power.
05/06/06
Top CriticPerhaps the fault lies more with Ennio Morricone's lavish, emotionally bullying music, which cancels out all the reticence and nuance of the script.
05/06/06
Fiercely unsentimental and surprisingly beautiful, Hungarian drama Fateless does the seemingly impossible: it succeeds in portraying the subject of the Holocaust in a new and devastating light.
05/05/06
Top CriticWe're meant to see the camps with a naive adolescent eye, but director Koltai misjudges his material, and his fastidious paletting and highly orchestrated set-pieces are curiously low-impact; beautiful where they should be beastly.
05/05/06
Top CriticRelatively few films touching on the Holocaust are worthy of their subject; this one is.
05/04/06
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04/23/09
"Fateless" is an essential film in the canon of holocaust film because it vividly tracks the specific brand of hatred that torture and genocidal murder inures.
04/20/09
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10/18/08
In cutting through the conventional cliches of Holocaust presentation to a more singular truth, Gyuri defies viewers to refuse him the license to tell his own story as he himself saw and felt it, rather than as others might prefer him to tell it.
07/06/07
Una película de sobrecogedora belleza que se las arregla para arrojar nueva luz sobre un tema trillado y recurrente.
03/25/07
Masterfully directed, acted and shot, this is world cinema at its absolute finest.
03/01/07
Haunting, affecting and beautiful in its own way, although slow-moving and overlong.
01/19/07
In a long list of Holocaust films, this sublime one is well-worth seeking out.
12/09/06
Fateless looks man's inhumanity to man square in the eye and pronounces it standard operating procedure, and that may be the greater horror.
06/02/06
Plays out as a constant tug-of-war between what makes it trite and what makes it unique, although what makes it unique has the better chance of sticking with you.
05/27/06
When Gyorgy speaks, like a junkie remembering his addiction, of 'the happiness of the camps,' the moment is far scarier than the images of pale corpses and hangman's nooses.
04/21/06
A reflection of how its main character comes to experience reality, as one small moment between what came before and whatever horror or happiness is yet to come.
04/20/06
Lajos Koltai's.. textured re-creation of enduring the unimaginable with quiet delicacy is the most hauntingly beautiful film about the Holocaust ever made.
04/13/06
This is haunting because it's a look inside the concentration camps through the eyes of a child.
04/02/06
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