Movie review: Faust (1994)

This one won't use the new "sections scheme", half of them would be marked N/A. I came across this obscure gem on an equally obscure forum where a poster compared it to Serial Experiments Lain, one of my all-time favourite weird/surreal animes where atmosphere trumps all and posted a link to one of the best scenes.

It had a very similar effect: I watched with my mouth open all along, my brain busy trying to process the stream of bizarre, uncanny or evocative assaulting it. I love being being befuddled in such a masterful fashion.

I have only two major complaints: some segments in the second half (thus the whole) felt too long and I had a hard time choosing between the Czech original voices that globally fit better and the English dub that makes Mephistopheles sound so impressive.

Don't know how I'd trim it, though. Perhaps I'd shorten the Pilookay/Padlookay and king of Portugal segments then drop the opera one.