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06/24/06
Gloomy Sunday (2003)
84 %
Reviews Counted: 62 Fresh: 52 Rotten:10 Average Rating: 7/10
Consensus:
Gloomy Sunday is beautiful, well-acted, and every bit as downcast as its title.
Runtime: 1 hr 54 mins
Synopsis: Set in pre-World War II Budapest, GLOOMY SUNDAY is a romantic melodrama that evokes the haunting melody of the same name, fabled to have caused over one hundred suicides in the 1930s. Before the dark days of the war, Laszlo (Joachim Krol), a Jewish restaurant owner, enjoys a successful... [More]
Genre: Foreign Films
Starring: Joachim Krol, Stefano Dionisi, Ben Becker, Erica Marozsan, Andras Balint
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Undoubtedly deserves to be added to the ranks of the best Holocaust films ever made.
05/02/07
It's old-fashioned, sometimes accomplished, syrupy and, at its intermittent best, absorbing.
04/20/07
Like many European films, GLOOMY SUNDAY has crisp cinematography and gorgeous production design, not to mention that hauntingly melancholic titular tune. The principal actors, for the most part, are attractive and talented. The movie apes the traditi
01/11/07
This strange movie has a hard time balancing all these elements, but the film's enormous passion overcomes its more obvious melodrama.
10/05/06
It's hard to say which is more ravishing and alluring in the movie, Ms. Marozsan or the celebrated song.
09/10/06
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07/21/05
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A smoothly crafted, intermittently charming film . . . the dips and turns are predictable and the tense scenes surrounding unhinged or scheming Nazis have been done before.
05/06/05
It's a film worth seeking out, a good fit for a rainy Saturday or any other less-than-bright day of the week.
04/18/05
This is the kind of material you expect to find in a Lifetime cable-channel movie.
04/15/05
It's a cracking good yarn, well-told and impeccably acted, especially by Król.
04/14/05
A superior soap opera not unlike what Douglas Sirk might have churned out in the 1950s.
12/03/04
This film is both enchanting and sad, with the Holocaust as a background element that eventually moves to the front of the storyline with painful inevitability.
04/29/04
Top Critic
Its old-fashioned romanticism is heady, and the relationships among the characters are intriguing.
02/20/04
Director/co-writer Rölf Schöbel's tight, philosophically sound narrative shows the essential relation of nationalist offenses to personal demons like lust, envy and blind resentment.
02/19/04
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Despite the movie's occasional overripe charm, it's hard to see Gloomy Sunday as anything more than handsomely crafted cheese.
02/02/04
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