The film tells three romantic love stories of Hoffmann with three of his woman in the past, Olympia, Giulietta, and Antonia. Although Hoffmann gradually lost each of the woman, however, he gained poetic inspiration as a result, allowing him to transform painful experiences into art.
2 December 1917, Paris, France
17 September 1904, Guayaquil, Ecuador
23 July 1918, Los Angeles, California, USA
8 July 1917, London, England, UK
1925, Southport, Lancashire, England, UK
17 January 1926, Dunfermline, Fife, Scotland, UK
9 August 1896, Moscow, Russian Empire [now Russia]
29 October 1923, Ashwell, Hertfordshire, England, UK
24 December 1920, London, England, UK
11 July 1904, Kensington, London, England, UK
25 March 1914, Attleboro, Massachusetts, USA
16 September 1919, Copenhagen, Denmark
18 August 1884, Hajdúnánás, Hungary
10 October 1924, Paris, France
9 April 1909, Mount Gambier, South Australia, Australia
December 12, 2015
The obvious care and effort that have gone into Hoffmann, the sometimes memorably contrived passages of virtuosity in the first half, make one reluctant to insist on the collapse of the work as a whole.
March 12, 2015
"Hoffmann" is an immersive aesthetic experience best thought of as an art form all its own.
February 23, 2015
As a work of pure, imaginative cinema, it comes close to genius.
April 23, 2015
Most if not all of these performers have since died; here, they live on.
November 26, 2012
One of the most completely realized marriages of color, movement, and music in the medium's history.
February 27, 2015
It's a work of hysterical excess and flamboyant extravagance and it feels unlike pretty much anything else you will ever see in a cinema.
February 26, 2015
Only the slightly muddled structure detracts from what is otherwise an audacious cinematic experiment.
March 01, 2015
Encore!
March 13, 2015
A gorgeous (2015) digital restoration. A fun, wittily directed and technically impressive achievement.
February 26, 2015
You might compare this to the 1948 Powell and Pressburger film The Red Shoes, though in many ways it is even more hallucinatory.
April 16, 2015
The film will never rank among my favorites in the careers of these filmmakers, but filmmaking legends as diverse as Cecil B. DeMille, Martin Scorsese and George A. Romero all adore it ...
November 26, 2012
Hard to take, despite the clear personal commitment of director Michael Powell and the enormous amount of talent on display in the photography, set design, and choreography.
