1994 · animation · fantasy · drama
Faust
Directed by Jan Švankmajer1h 37m1994
A very free adaptation of Marlowe's "Doctor Faustus", Goethe's "Faust" and various other treatments of the old legend of the man who sold his soul to the devil. A nondescript man is lured by a strange map into a sinister puppet theatre, where he finds himself immersed in an indescribably weird version of the play, blending live actors, clay animation and giant puppets.
Our read: Faust (1994) reads as a sombre, steady, surreal animation · fantasy · drama entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, cold in temperature, nihilistic in outlook, with a strong directorial signature.
Sombre, steady, measured animation / fantasy, surreal in texture. Nihilistic, mid-stakes, cold.
- sombre
- surreal
- bleak
- cold
- signature
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