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- 2015
- Not Rated
- Icarus Films
- 1 h 35 m
- 2015
- Not Rated
- Icarus Films
- 1 h 35 m
Summary Where others flee, he makes his home. What others dread, he makes his habitat. What others fight to suppress, he drags back to the surface. Throughout his life, HR Giger inhabited the world of the uncanny: a dark universe on the brink of many an abyss.
Directed By: Belinda Sallin
Written By: Belinda Sallin
- 2015
- Not Rated
- Icarus Films
- 1 h 35 m
- 2015
- Not Rated
- Icarus Films
- 1 h 35 m
Dark Star: HR Giger's World
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5.8
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Summary Where others flee, he makes his home. What others dread, he makes his habitat. What others fight to suppress, he drags back to the surface. Throughout his life, HR Giger inhabited the world of the uncanny: a dark universe on the brink of many an abyss.
Directed By: Belinda Sallin
Written By: Belinda Sallin
Where to Watch
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 13 Critic Reviews
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 13 Critic Reviews
62
62% Positive
8 Reviews
8 Reviews
38% Mixed
5 Reviews
5 Reviews
0% Negative
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The film is fascinating, even if you're resistant to this dark star's gravity.
It's also genuinely warm and involving because of the participation of everyone from Carmen Vega, Giger's widow, to Sandra Berretta, Giger's former assistant and self-described "life partner." The film is, in that sense, an effective memorial, one filmed after Giger himself admitted that he had said all he wanted to say in his art.
Fails to bring Giger to life in any kind of illuminating way.
The film fails to represent how singular and influential the late Giger is in popular culture.
Dark Star might have been more fascinating had Sallin delved deeper into his place as an artist.
What’s perhaps most telling about the artist himself is a later-in-life project he builds in his cluttered backyard, a sort of funhouse ride through his own psyche.
This disordered portrait seems heavily influenced by its equally jumbled setting.
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User Score
Mixed or Average
Based on 4 User Ratings
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50% Positive
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Production Company
T&C Film AG,
Schweizer Radio und Fernsehen (SRF),
SRG - SSR,
Lucky Film
Release Date May 15, 2015
Duration 1 h 35 m
Rating Not Rated
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Awards
Locarno International Film Festival
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
Zurich Film Festival
• 1 Nomination
