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Movie Overview
Cast
• Marcell Nagy
Director
• Lajos Koltai
MPAA Rating
Not Rated
Fateless (2006)

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OFCS Rating: 93% Fresh
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"No depiction of the extermination camp experience of an individual has ever been so large; it verges on the ecstatic."  Blogcritics.org  Alan Dale

"In cutting through the conventional cliches of Holocaust presentation to a more singular truth, Gyuri defies viewers to refuse him the license to tell his own story as he himself saw and felt it, rather than as others might prefer him to tell it."  Eye for Film  Anton Bitel

4/5
"Fateless is not a necessarily hopeful film, but it's also definitely not a cynical one; it may even be a great one."  Filmcritic.com  Chris Barsanti

A
"In a long list of Holocaust films, this sublime one is well-worth seeking out."  Ozus' World Movie Reviews  Dennis Schwartz

2.5/4
"Fateless suggests a new kind of emotionless Holocaust drama--a cannibalistic one."  Slant Magazine  Ed Gonzalez

4/5
"Una película de sobrecogedora belleza que se las arregla para arrojar nueva luz sobre un tema trillado y recurrente."  Uruguay Total  Enrique Buchichio

4/5
"A powerful drama about a Hungarian boy's coming-of-age in concentration camps during World War II."  Spirituality and Practice  Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat

8/10
"Plays out as a constant tug-of-war between what makes it trite and what makes it unique, although what makes it unique has the better chance of sticking with you."  Window to the Movies  Jeffrey Chen

3/5
"Director Lajos Koltai has taken a few tips from another Holocaust drama, Roman Polanski's The Pianist."  Film-Forward.com  Kent Turner

"[L]ooks anew at familiar horrors through adolescent eyes, silently voicing the eternal teenage contention that adults are idiots and have hopelessly screwed up the world..."  Flick Filosopher  MaryAnn Johanson

B
"Haunting, affecting and beautiful in its own way, although slow-moving and overlong."  Laramie Movie Scope  Robert Roten

A-
"This true story takes the monumental suffering of the Holocaust and distills it into the life and survival of one teenaged boy."  Reeling Reviews  Robin Clifford

6/10
"The deep and nearly imponderable lesson of Fateless makes its watching more duty than entertainment."  Monsters and Critics  Ron Wilkinson

A
"Lajos Koltai's.. textured re-creation of enduring the unimaginable with quiet delicacy is the most hauntingly beautiful film about the Holocaust ever made."  Seattle Post-Intelligencer  Sean Axmaker

3.5/4
"One of the most deeply affecting movies ever made about the Holocaust."  Reel.com  Timothy Knight
OFCS Rating: 93% Fresh
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