55
Metascore
6 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 70Village VoiceAlan ScherstuhlVillage VoiceAlan ScherstuhlHaupt persuades viewers to surrender to a place, to a vision, and to a scale of thinking beyond our own lives.
- 70Los Angeles TimesKenneth TuranLos Angeles TimesKenneth TuranLa Sagrada is always going to be a spectacular building, but cinematographer Patrick Lindenmaier does an especially fine job of showing us the play of light in the cathedral's enveloping interiors.
- 63Chicago Sun-TimesBill StametsChicago Sun-TimesBill StametsA paean to creative impulses, this work channels the vision of Catalan architect Antoni Gaudi.
- 50The New York TimesBen KenigsbergThe New York TimesBen KenigsbergEmploying bursts of Bach and English-language narration, this lulling, informative documentary never fully grapples with its topic’s complexity.
- 50VarietyJay WeissbergVarietyJay WeissbergWhere Haupt succeeds is in conveying the passion felt by everyone who works on the Sagrada, from foremen to sculptors.
- 40The Hollywood ReporterFrank ScheckThe Hollywood ReporterFrank ScheckStefan Haupt's (The Circle) documentary Sagrada: The Mystery of Creation explores the building's tortured history and the current efforts to bring it to fruition, but in a disappointingly dull style that fails to do justice to its outsized inspiration.