Buster's Mal Heart
This story begins with many powerful events that speak of an extraordinary man running away from the authorities in mysterious circumstances. The man is still trying to survive in the winter by storming the homes of many people. Perhaps in the end, the man tries to communicate with radio talk shows, as he seems to have a goal he wants to achieve.
12 April 1973, Portsmouth, Virginia, USA
26 February 1968, Kingston, New York, USA
2 August 1940, Colorado, USA
9 December 1966, Marshalltown, Iowa, USA
May 19, 2017
Thinks of Buster's Mal Heart as a visual poem about the suffocating sadness of a world in which we're victim to unfair rules. How does it make you feel?
May 17, 2017
What makes it compelling is Malek's solid performance.
May 11, 2017
Happily, the weirdness is not for its own sake, and the story, while scrambled, is anything but incoherent.
May 10, 2017
Malek is always a fascinating screen presence, but he can't do much with long stretches of silent contemplation, especially when half of those find him buried under silly mountain-man makeup.
May 04, 2017
"Buster's Mal Heart" achieves resonance through repeated imagery.
May 11, 2017
Smith's idiosyncratic style isn't going to please everyone, but she deserves top marks for bold ideas and storytelling.
May 04, 2017
"Buster's Mal Heart" is an intensely weird film, at times difficult to sort out and process, much less understand. See it anyway.
May 04, 2017
It's a confident weirdness that "Buster's Mal Heart" boasts as it dissects a damaged soul for signs of what's eternal and what's triggered when a man breaks in two.
May 17, 2017
The combination of this casual sadism and the movie's hollow aspirations toward Camus territory makes the whole affair unpleasant and insufferable.
May 06, 2017
Wickedly wry, unexpectedly empathetic, and deliberately provocative
May 12, 2017
If you appreciate a writer/director and actor who swing for the fences and chase after big questions ... this has a dreamlike beauty that may catch you in its spell.
May 17, 2017
Even when the film tarries perilously close to Fight Club "what is reality?" territory, it works to ultimately benefit the whole.
