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Fausto 5.0 (2001)

Fausto 5.0 poster
Directed by
Àlex Ollé, Isidro Ortiz
Genre
fantasy film
Country
Spain
Runtime
1h 33m
Rating
6.0 of 10 from 31 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A man makes a pact with a mysterious figure who offers him his deepest desires. The story follows the consequences of this deal in a modern setting.

tensepsychologicalatmosphericslow-burndarkunsettlingcerebralbrooding

What happens

Fausto 5.0 is a 2001 Spanish psychological thriller film directed by Àlex Ollé, Carlos Padrissa and Isidro Ortiz from a screenplay by Fernando León de Aranoa. It stars Miguel Ángel Solá, Eduard Fernández, and Najwa Nimri. Fausto 5.0 is the last part of a trilogy dedicated to the figure of Faust. The first two installments were F@ust 3.0 (originally a play) and The Damnation of Faust (originally an opera). All three films were developed for the screen by La Fura dels Baus, an experimental theatre group from Barcelona. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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