Fausto

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Fausto

2018

1h 10m

Documentary

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A shapeshifter lives on Mexico's Oaxacan coast.

Guy Lodge

Variety

06/16/2019

Bussmann invites us to consider the ancient cultural traditions and belief systems lost throughout history to colonization and gentrification.

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Peter Goldberg

Slant Magazine

04/03/2019

3/4

The shadowed border between human and non-human perception is one of the film's sustained topics of interrogation.

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Diego Batlle

Otroscines.com

06/29/2022

3/5

For hard-core cinephiles with the patience to journey through a 16mm long take hypnotic universe, and not for those looking for a less experimental, narrative experience. [Full review in Spanish]

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Erick Estrada

Cinegarage

06/10/2019

There is no narrative and that's okay because Faust is one of those stories that can express and communicate without doing much. [Full Review in Spanish]

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Pat Mullen

Cinemablographer

05/10/2019

Demanding, frustrating, fascinating, and rewarding, Fausto is a richly dense exercise in active viewing.

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Demitra Kampakis

Cinema Scope

04/19/2019

This metaphysical fixation with shadows helps explain the film's obsession with obstructing our visual clarity-subjects too are often barely illuminated by candlelight-by forcing us to reconsider what is literally in front of our eyes.

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Synopsis

A shapeshifter lives on Mexico's Oaxacan coast.

Director: Andrea Bussmann
Producer: Andrea Bussmann, Nicolás Pereda
Screenwriter: Andrea Bussmann
Genre: Documentary
Original Language: Spanish
Runtime: 1h 10m