Charlatan

Holland... deftly moves the story through its present and past and elicits understated performances throughout the entire cast, all without excessive sentimentality.

Often as thorny as its subject but also oddly fascinated by his near-magical abilities, "Charlatan" is a temporary cure for the common biopic.

Throughout the film, Agnieszka Holland makes clear that she isn't interested in easily digestible pop-psychology nuggets.

There's an austere elegance to Holland's film-making...

The venerable veteran director Agnieszka Holland has made a tasty, if not fully-baked, biographical drama about an obstinate man whose life was as difficult as he was.

Polish director Agnieszka Holland has made another fascinating but disjointed biopic about a little-known figure whose story helps to reveal the soul of 20th century Europe.

Sober, lucid, well intoned and inevitably a bit cold. [Full Review in Spanish]

Jaroslava Pokorna's performance as Jan Palach's mother is superb. [Full review in Spanish]

A fascinating and well-executed biopic that gives a local icon an international audience.

A certainly provocative idea is proposed, then it offers a vision of communism much darker than that of Nazism, which is given the photographic treatment. [Full review in Spanish]