Review of Four Minutes (2005) by Raja N — 18 Apr 2010
Underrated and unseen, Vier Minuten is one of the best german movies released in the past decade. It portrays the violence of a woman in a penitentiary who has the gift of being a musician, and is presenting this gift in a rage and violence never seen before on her instrument.
An elderly teacher tries to calm her down, Shumann's way, and ultimately fails doing so. This will result in one of the most brutal and genius 4 minutes of music that cinema ever offered us. It's very well directed, and the unease feeling is always there throughout the film.
Drags a little in its last third but stays nonetheless a good foreign piece of art.
This review of Four Minutes (2005) was written by Raja N on 18 Apr 2010.
Four Minutes has generally received positive reviews.
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