V tumane 2012

Manohla Dargis, New York Times: The world and its choices are often cruel, but for all the devastations visited on the characters, Mr. Loznitsa is searching for the human good amid a human catastrophe. Read more

Leslie Felperin, Variety: Sergei Loznitsa's sophomore feature is a more conventional work than his audacious debut, My Joy, but no less accomplished in its craft, especially thanks to sterling work by ace Romanian lenser Oleg Mutu. Read more

Scott Tobias, AV Club: Takes a long, slow, and exceedingly bleak and morose look at the moral choices of three Belorussian soldiers during the German occupation of WWII. Read more

Peter Keough, Boston Globe: As remorseless in style as it is in message, "In the Fog" offers little hope and few pleasures, but earns admiration for its elegant exploration of the lowest depths of the human condition. Read more

Ben Sachs, Chicago Reader: Director Sergei Loznitsa often employs dreamy, intricately choreographed long-takes reminiscent of Russian filmmakers Andrei Tarkovsky, Aleksei Guerman, and Aleksandr Sokurov. Read more

Stephen Dalton, Hollywood Reporter: A ponderous trudge at times, it is ultimately worth the journey. Read more

Betsy Sharkey, Los Angeles Times: Intimate in the telling, sweeping in the implications, Loznitsa has created an unusually incisive film. Read more

David Thomson, The New Republic: In the Fog, which seems to me a masterpiece, is about occupation and the destruction of an understanding of one's own history. Read more

Farran Smith Nehme, New York Post: Even when the pace wanes, the images are still gripping. Read more

Geoff Andrew, Time Out: Loznitsa knows that war exists and won't go away; rather than indulging in patriotic or pacifistic platitudes, he tries to show what it might do to our souls. And, in this writer's opinion, he succeeds. Read more

Keith Uhlich, Time Out: The initial strangeness wears off as the narrative rhythms become more predictable-enter past, return to present, repeat-and the cliched existential metaphors pile up. Read more

Michael Atkinson, Village Voice: In the Fog has the inevitability of an avalanche, and only our overfamilarity with Nazi-tribulation scenarios, and perhaps its excessively punctuated ending, could slow it down. Read more