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  • 2021
  • Iadasarecasa
  • 3 h 21 m
  • 2021
  • Iadasarecasa
  • 3 h 21 m
Malmkrog

Summary Among the guests who come to the mansion of aristocratic landowner Nikolai over Christmas are a politician, a young countess, and a general with his wife. They dine and discuss topics such as progress and morality. As the debate becomes more heated, cultural differences become increasingly apparent. [MUBI]

Written By: Cristi Puiu, Vladimir Solovyov

  • 2021
  • Iadasarecasa
  • 3 h 21 m
  • 2021
  • Iadasarecasa
  • 3 h 21 m

Malmkrog

Metascore Mixed or Average Based on 10 Critic Reviews
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Summary Among the guests who come to the mansion of aristocratic landowner Nikolai over Christmas are a politician, a young countess, and a general with his wife. They dine and discuss topics such as progress and morality. As the debate becomes more heated, cultural differences become increasingly apparent. [MUBI]

Written By: Cristi Puiu, Vladimir Solovyov

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Metascore
Mixed or Average Based on 10 Critic Reviews
52
20% Positive
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80% Mixed
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0% Negative
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Mixed or Average Based on 10 Critic Reviews
52
20% Positive
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80% Mixed
8 Reviews
0% Negative
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83
Feb 28, 2020
The vast majority of the film functions as a hypnotic if frankly monotonous dialectic (ruminations on Christ, honor, “we were just following orders,” war, love etc. that become more heated as time goes on) that is assured to alienate most anyone without a minor in philosophy or the vocabulary of academic text.
By Rory O'Connor FULL REVIEW
60
Mar 26, 2021
Malmkrog is a talky, challenging slog, but it’s seldom short of ideas. One is unlikely to find greater consideration of pelagianism in any other film this year. Or decade.
By Tara Brady FULL REVIEW
60
Feb 28, 2020
For all that this film has something exasperatingly opaque and inert about it, it has an uncompromising insistence that ideas matter. These people’s thoughts, although debatable, are not simply presented as absurd. Malmkrog is a long, demanding experience – a real festival event. But that bizarre dreamlike eruption lives on in the mind.
By Peter Bradshaw FULL REVIEW
50
Apr 8, 2021
Even if some segments are invigoratingly thought-provoking in the same manner that a young student feels engaging with classical thinkers for the first time, the format’s lack of stimuli beyond cutting between speakers soon turns tedious. In scenes conceived as static frames, Puiu plays with depth of field for slightly more visually layered results.
By Carlos Aguilar FULL REVIEW
50
Apr 1, 2021
Imagine a Chekhov play without drama, an Oscar Wilde farce without humor, a Visconti film without desire, or a very long party at the home of a distant acquaintance, and you will have some idea of Malmkrog, Cristi Puiu’s latest film.
By A.O. Scott FULL REVIEW
50
Feb 28, 2020
For all its directorial mastery, this austere cine-symposium feels like an artistic blind alley, and one that recklessly presumes an audience of committed chin-strokers with a preternatural attention span.
By Jonathan Romney FULL REVIEW
40
Feb 28, 2020
It is uncompromising filmmaking, certainly, but also insular filmmaking that will make a tiny little circle of intellectual cinephiles very happy while leaving everyone else — this critic included — completely cold.
By Boyd van Hoeij FULL REVIEW

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Production Company Mandragora, Bord Cadre Films, Doppelganger, SENSE Production, Cinnamon Films, Film i Väst, Sister and Brother Mitevski, Production 2006, Sovereign Films (II), Iadasarecasa, Centre national du cinéma et de l'image animée (CNC), Studioul de Creatie Cinematografica al Ministerului Culturii, SRTV, Ministry of Culture of Canton Sarajevo, Makedonija Film, Ministry of Culture and Sports, Filmski centar Srbije
Release Date Apr 2, 2021
Duration 3 h 21 m
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Awards

Gopo Awards, Romania
• 5 Wins & 11 Nominations
East-West: Golden Arch International Film Awards
• 2 Wins & 4 Nominations
International Cinephile Society Awards
• 4 Nominations

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