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"Faust is a powerful reminder of the difference between European and American filmmaking, in that the film's comfort with the unreal, such as a cloth falling from a mirror which is swinging from the sky, one of the film's opening shots, doesn't allow us to ruminate over such details for too long, or to ponder their meaning: we simply accept them, almost without realizing it. The film provides transport in plenty of other ways: the rather edgy, overly physical way the characters interact with each other, a mixture of dance, pantomime, and basketball; the distorted distances between the viewer and the subject, such as the up-close view of a dead man's genitals or the convex lens applied sometimes to characters' faces; or the unorthodox use of a grandiose soundtrack in conjunction with, say, the intense dirtinessof 19th century city streets. All of these elements combine to create an experience which is un-American, in the best possible sense."