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02/09/06
Up and Down (2005)
84 %
Reviews Counted: 63 Fresh: 53 Rotten:10 Average Rating: 7.2/10
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A tragi-comic exploration of the universal search for stability in post-Communist Prague.
Runtime: 1 hr 53 mins
Synopsis: Director Jan Hrebejk (DIVIDED WE FALL) once again delivers a perfectly-balanced dark comedy, a satire addressing the fragile state of the contemporary Czech Republic, as well as the foibles of the more or less damaged characters who populate the film, all of whom are in search of redemption.... [More]
Genre: Foreign Films
Starring: Petr Forman, Emília Vásáryová, Jan Tríska
Director: Jan Hrebejk
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05/26/06
When you understand its message, the film takes on a different level.
04/21/06
Forget Crash. This vivisection of race and class, set in the Czech Republic, offers no easy redemption, if any.
01/03/06
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09/26/05
Top Critic
A sprawling comedy-drama that actually tries to say something -- not just about its characters, but about the Czech Republic and what it's turned into since becoming a capitalistic society.
06/25/05
[A] fascinating but disjointed portrait of strained family relations in the modern Czech Republic.
06/24/05
Hrebejk suggests, through this tragi-comic film, that while things are rough now, they've got to get better. I mean, they can't get much worse, can they?
05/22/05
Hrebejk's stylish direction and perfectly chosen cast make what might otherwise have been a depressing tale of post-perestroika working class woes into a melancholy, comedic riff on what it means to be European these days.
05/08/05
For an engrossing, funny, sad, cautiously hopeful portrait of post-Soviet life in Eastern Europe, look no further than Up and Down.
04/29/05
The movie asks us to see these people as humans and to forgive them for being human and doing to each other what humans beings do to each other. It's a deeply humane film.
04/28/05
The suspense of watching the storylines weave together (and occasionally butt heads) like a Czech-language “Short Cuts” makes for a compelling and darkly funny film.
04/28/05
While parts of 'Up and Down' are effective, as a whole it doesn't measure up to its laudable ambition...the last word of the title proves more accurate than the first.
04/26/05
It manages the neat trick of being both charming and bilious, and its tart points about racism translate excellently into English.
04/22/05
The story's lack of impact onscreen reflects its lack of impact on those of us offscreen.
04/22/05
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