Behemoth: reviews
Reviews
What the critics say
- La RazónSergi Sánchez
"When it is just a documentary, is magnificent. When the voice of Zhao Liang screens into the images (...) the thing gets worse remarkable. However, the main point of the film has an impressive power."
Read - El MundoLuis Martínez
"All the movie moves between the documentary and the fairytale; between reality and allegory. Doubtless, a piece of poetry maybe absurd and decidedly vast. Even brutal."
Read - Screen DailyLee Marshall
"'Behemoth' achieves much of its authority not from its borderline-pretentious voiceovers but from the way the images comment wordlessly on a world in which humans are reduced to the status of servants"
Read - The Hollywood ReporterDavid Rooney
"Alternating between grimly beautiful passages and others that, frankly, are dull and dutiful, this is a rigorous exercise with something of a trance quality"
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