Fateless

It's been a couple of years since I've read the book but I just think something is missing. It's a great movie though. And I wonder why they tend to take famous actors playing roles for which they have to fake an awful accent instead of just casting a native....

Powerful.

The usual business for this sort of thing. Morricone seems very much out of place until the end bits.

Amazing picture!

Sets out to convey a Hungarian Jewish boy's experience of the Holocaust. While it certainly gives a sense of the way in which events unfolded relentlessly and in a sense impersonally, does it actually convey what it wants to? The way in which the viewer answers this question will determine their view of the movie. In my view, it seems only partially successful, mostly for reasons that affect all movies with this theme.

Holocaust movies are so plentiful that they are now a mini-genre, with their own cliches and obligatory signposts. I was initially disappointed when Fateless opened with a voice speaking over sepia-toned photography. Here we go again... But then, gradually, the reasons for these aesthetic choices became clear, and by the time the film ended, I was impressed by the unsually challenging perspective the film provides.

"Fateless suggests a new kind of emotionless Holocaust drama--a cannibalistic one." - Ed Gonzalez

Based on one of my favorite books but lacking everything that made the book so great, despite a screenplay by the author. It's beautifully shot but there's no coherence or continuity in it, something that's reinforced by every scene being separated by a fade in/fade out. Morricone's music is good but feels out of place and too orchestral for something that's supposed to be very subdued. Oh, and Daniel Craig's accent is pretty terrible.