Video Review

Woyzeck

Reviewed by Mike D'Angelo | Jun 11, 1999
EW's GRADE
C-

Details Movie Rated: Unrated; Genres: Action/Adventure, Drama, Foreign Language; With: Diana Vacaru, Eva Mattes, Klaus Kinski, Lajos Kovacs and Roy Guerra

Filmed in a series of desolate long shots juxtaposed with punishing facial close-ups — call it SqualorScope — this 1994 adaptation of Georg Buchner's classic drama of existential crisis impresses visually but fails to connect emotionally. And, as in Werner Herzog's 1978 version of Woyzeck, scenes that should be elemental come across as a bit too pointedly abstract. B-

Originally posted Jun 11, 1999 Published in issue #489 Jun 11, 1999 Order article reprints
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