Charlatan
Agnieszka Holland, director of Mr Jones and the Oscar-nominated In Darkness, helms this historical drama centred on a Czechoslovakian herbalist whose healing skills are utilised in different ways throughout World War II and beyond.
- Director:
- Agnieszka Holland
- Writer:
- Marek Epstein
- Cast:
- Ivan TrojanJosef TrojanJuraj LojJaroslava Pokorná
Reviews & comments
Hollywood Reporter
pressThough shot in the most classic of idioms, the film commands attention with its mesmerizing performances and lively cross-cutting between key moments in the hero’s life.
IndieWire
pressCharlatan becomes entangled in its conflicting mesh of traits and time periods, but the film is only able to become more than the sum of its frustrating parts because it embraces those complications in the first place.
The Guardian
pressCharlatan is a film that does not quite satisfy the curiosity it arouses.
Variety
pressCaught between a respectful tribute to Mikolášek’s medical achievements and a more salacious examination of his moral transgressions — with a tender if speculative gay romance propped somewhere in between — it’s an ambitious portrait of human imperfection that doesn’t strain to arouse much affection for its subject in the audience.
Hollywood Reporter
pressThough shot in the most classic of idioms, the film commands attention with its mesmerizing performances and lively cross-cutting between key moments in the hero’s life.
IndieWire
pressCharlatan becomes entangled in its conflicting mesh of traits and time periods, but the film is only able to become more than the sum of its frustrating parts because it embraces those complications in the first place.
The Guardian
pressCharlatan is a film that does not quite satisfy the curiosity it arouses.
Variety
pressCaught between a respectful tribute to Mikolášek’s medical achievements and a more salacious examination of his moral transgressions — with a tender if speculative gay romance propped somewhere in between — it’s an ambitious portrait of human imperfection that doesn’t strain to arouse much affection for its subject in the audience.
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