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Mixed reactions to TEMPTATION OF ST TONY...longest credits ever
Just screened this film at Sundance. Yes, it is inaccessible. The issues about good and evil have been better expressed in other films. The plot, if you believe the film indeed has one, is unclear and open to the projection of the viewer. Too long, and too ambiguous, many audience members walked out of the film mid-way when a fortuitous, false fire alarm went off. This film would screen better if it was re-cut shorter. This is truly one of the most bizarre films I've seen.
This is truly one of the most bizarre films I've seen.
An extremely disturbing film.... which could be described as chainsaw massacre meets eyes wide shut. This film gives the audience a bad impression of Estonia.
Way too philosohpical. Everything had a meaning but what that meaning was is unknown. The movie did not flow at all. Each act was completely different than the act before.
Philosophical? Yes. Interesting cinematography? Yes. BUT also extremely dark, disturbing, and disjointed.
I saw the film in Sundance. It completely shook me - I've never seen anything like this. Just perfect. You can't stick to the plot issue because the film is built up differently . You just have to go with the flow and you get something that no films nowadays can give you any more. I'm so happy that I happened to be there.
Temptation of St. Tony- Sureal B&W Estonian film about the meaninglessness of existence. And it's a comedy! Maybe.
I agree with eerik's review - and it IS dark, but it really borders on black comedy in many places. One of the most memorable films i've seen in some time.
I didn't get this film... there was only about 50 people in the theater and I don't think they got it either - but paid $15 and likely wanted to see if it ever got better... Perhaps most of us are just used to a more "americanized' film.... It did have some interesting camera angles.
Screened at Sundance Film Festival 2010: Temptation of St. Tony-bleak, non-linear, haunting--last showing on Fri
I just saw the film at Sundance. One of the most beautiful, strange, moving pieces I've ever experienced. I appreciate their departure from generic boy-meets-girl storytelling that has taken over film today. See it if you can, and be ready to be transported somewhere else entirely.
“Midway upon the journey of our life, I found myself within a forest dark.” With this quote from Dante’s Inferno, so begins The Temptation of St. Tony, a visual and aural masterpiece from Estonian writer/director Veiko Ounpuu, a film as baffling as it is beautiful, as profound as it is terrifying. I will feel lucky if I see a more fascinating and cinematically accomplished film, not just here at Sundance, but anywhere this year. Emily Dickinson once wrote, “If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off, I know that is poetry.” By that standard, from my experience watching the film, The Temptation of St. Tony is poetry.
*** LOE PIKEMALT ***
The elements of scene construction, sound design, score and cinematography come together with such unity of purpose, such cinematic craft, such thundering vision, I am tempted to say Ounpuu is on the path to becoming one of the world’s next great filmmakers—in the tradition of Ingmar Bergman, Bela Tarr and David Lynch—but wholly his own maestro.
I loved the look of the film. I loved how each “chapter” had its own theme and bizarre central event. I loved that the music chosen to accompany key scenes were all songs from the classic American songbook, songs of forlorn women and working men. I loved the continuous journey of our main character, someone whom everyone says is “a good man,” and his attempt to figure out what the hell was going on with those severed hands. The deeper he gets into his search, the more he discovers, and the more the evil that he finds becomes a part of him. I loved his performance. He begins as a quiet almost-passive man surrounded by grumpy, talkative lunatics. Tony is the calm, clear presence, the one they all look to—for approval, for guidance. They aren’t sure why. Even strangers pick him out of a crowd as someone who might know what is really going on. Not just with the severed hands, but with life itself. Õunpuu is someone to watch and I consider The Temptation of St. Tony an absolute must-see.
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