Faust

In Faust, Alexandre Sokourov revisits the timeless myth of the man who makes a pact with the devil. Awarded the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival, it completes the director's tetralogy on power. The Russian director is not content to reinterpret Goethe; he delves into the meanders of the human soul, exploring the depths of the quest for knowledge and power. He sets his characters in a 19th-century German village, in a twilight world that takes us back to paintings by Bosch or Bruegel....