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Pretentious, self-involved style of this young director leaves us totally cold , May 16, 2008
By Mike Caccioppoli
“"Magnus" has something to say about love, parenthood, sex and suicide but not necessarily in that order. The problem is that its pretensions get in the way of us caring about its characters and really understanding what it’s trying to accomplish.
The title character is a lonely, confused”
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Magnus by Kadri Kousaar banned from being distributed in Estonia, May 17, 2008
By Janno Maurer
“Film is characterized by slow and unsteady dialogue, weak character development (even of the main characters), and a number of unnecessary sexual connotations. Kousaar made many questionable choices including casting Mart Laisk playing The Father - not an actor at all and in fact the real father of”
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Kadri Kousaar's "Magnus" is offensively crude, May 28, 2008
By Annie Wagner
“Kousaar comes dangerously close to endorsing the views of her young protagonist, who besides being eager to end his own life is also a pretentious jerk.
Delivered into the care of his prostitute-patronizing slacker of a father (played by the real-life father of a suicide), Magnus experiments”
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I should have known . . ., Jun 03, 2008
By J Daniel Scott
“... when I arrived for this film 30 minutes before start time and saw five people in the ticket holder line and a dozen in the pass holder line that something was amiss. This is a stinker of film that collapsed under the weight of its pretentions. I gave it two stars for the beautiful shots of”
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