Review of In the Basement (2014) by Charles S — 23 Jan 2016

Austrians doing weird things in their basements.

This review of In the Basement (2014) was written by Charles S on 23 Jan 2016.

In the Basement has generally received positive reviews.

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It's in more conventional observation and confessions to camera that the film really delivers its strange, melancholic universe…

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By Tor M (646) on 19 Sep 2018

Ulrich Seidl has done some great films. Some of them documentaries…

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By Alan Scherstuhl (679) for Village Voice (8,525) on 03 Nov 2015

Seidl's study reminds us, with each new basement, that the places where we're most ourselves might as well have grown off us like the shells…

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By Alain F (10) on 07 Oct 2015

This is a glorified freak show for middle class people…

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By Ben Sachs (546) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 19 Nov 2015

In the Basement is a brisk, bracing, and often very funny film about the seeds of fascism in contemporary Austrian society…

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By Steve Erickson (207) for Gay City News (145) on 15 Feb 2018

There's a pleasurable quality to [ director Ulrich] Seidl's direction even when what he's filming is repugnant…

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By Ray Pride (544) for Newcity (539) on 18 Nov 2015

Can his fellow Austrians be as strange, as blunt, as unfathomably cruel as lore and legend hold…

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By Simon D (1,648) on 13 Dec 2015

Ulrich Seidl seems intent on exposing the Austrian underworld and as a resident of the country, I'm finding his films very informative…

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