Scarred Hearts

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Scarred Hearts

Released Jul 27, 2018

2h 21m

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During the summer of 1937, Emanuel, a young man in his early 20s, is committed to a sanatorium on the Black Sea coast for treatment of his bone tuberculosis. The treatment consists of painful spine punctures that confine him to a body cast on a stretcher-bed. Little by little, as Emanuel gets accustomed to the limitations of his new life, he discovers that inside the sanatorium there is still a life to be lived, and he must live it to the fullest.

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Ben Kenigsberg

New York Times

It's the rare page-to-screen adaptation in which the camera becomes an essential character.

Jul 26, 2018

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Clayton Dillard

Slant Magazine

Despite the film's bleak premise, writer-director Radu Jude finds dark humor within the certainty of death.

Rated: 3.5/4

Jul 18, 2018

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Boyd van Hoeij

The Hollywood Reporter

Hearts hardly develops a pulse, hiding the faces of the protagonists in immobile medium and wide shots while any possible emotions get snowed under by non-contextualized intellectual musings and socio-politico-historical details.

Nov 21, 2017

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Armond White

National Review

At two and a quarter hours, Scarred Hearts recalls the miserable overlong 2005 Romanian film The Death of Mr. Lazarescu.

Nov 6, 2018

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Robin Clifford

Reeling Reviews

a funky, funny, quasi-serious story rampant with quirky characters, amusing situation, near-barbaric medical practices and a fatalist, comedic look at life.

Rated: B

Aug 22, 2018

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Laura Clifford

Reeling Reviews

Jude has taken a singular experience during disturbing times and turned it into an equally singular film, one which begins advising that humans are meaningless then demonstrates just what elevates them - love and art.

Rated: B+

Aug 21, 2018

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nefasto r

After the shaky camerawork of "Everybody in our family", Radu Jude chooses fixed shots to tell this bleak story. I saw that some people found this film funny, and I myself love dark humor, but knowing from the start that the story is taken from an autobiographical book, I did not find all this happiness in the lives of the characters. They tried though, so maybe it was more of a missed attempted than actual will to be bleak.

Rated 3 out of 5 stars

03/31/23

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Audience Member

Not bad movie for this director. I will enjoy it on my mob phone using boxxy software. Recommend.

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

02/17/23

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Audience Member

One of the most powerful films I ever saw, about life in a place of death. It's a very lively and joyful film, which is gruesome at the same time. A true parabole of the human condition.

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

01/17/23

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During the summer of 1937, Emanuel, a young man in his early 20s, is committed to a sanatorium on the Black Sea coast for treatment of his bone tuberculosis. The treatment consists of painful spine punctures that confine him to a body cast on a stretcher-bed. Little by little, as Emanuel gets accustomed to the limitations of his new life, he discovers that inside the sanatorium there is still a life to be lived, and he must live it to the fullest.

Director: Radu Jude
Producer: Ada Solomon
Screenwriter: Radu Jude
Distributor: Big World Pictures
Production Co: Komplizen Film
Genre: History, Drama
Original Language: Romanian
Release Date (Theaters): Jul 27, 2018, Limited
Release Date (Streaming): Apr 27, 2019
Runtime: 2h 21m

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