The writer-director Stefan Haupt earned festival prizes galore with his 2014 docudrama The Circle, which Switzerland nominated as its official Oscars submission. More formally conventional, Haupt’s follow-up project is a measured, dutiful adaptation of Dark Fortune, Lukas Hartmann’s 2011 novel about a tragedy that devastates one family and shakes up another. The material may be somber but the characters are engaging, the performances strong and the overall treatment elegant.
Following its international premier in competition at Black Nights film festival in Tallinn last week, where it won the Ecumenical Jury prize, Dark Fortune has the kind of solid middlebrow prestige...
Following its international premier in competition at Black Nights film festival in Tallinn last week, where it won the Ecumenical Jury prize, Dark Fortune has the kind of solid middlebrow prestige...
- 12/5/2016
- by Stephen Dalton
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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