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  • Actors: John Cusack, Noah Taylor, Leelee Sobieski, Molly Parker, Ulrich Thomsen
  • Directors: Menno Meyjes
  • Writers: Menno Meyjes
  • Producers: John Cusack, Andras Hamori, Andrea Albert, Cameron McCracken, Damon Bryant
  • Format: Anamorphic, PAL, Widescreen
  • Language English
  • Subtitles: Danish, English, Finnish, Norwegian, Swedish
  • Region: Region 2 (This DVD may not be viewable outside Europe. Read more about DVD formats.)
  • Aspect Ratio: 1.78:1
  • Number of discs: 1
  • Classification: 15
  • Studio: Pathe Distribution
  • DVD Release Date: 1 Mar 2004
  • Run Time: 101 minutes
  • Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
  • ASIN: B0001B3ZBO
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 17,508 in DVD (See Bestsellers in DVD)

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The dark connections between art, desire and evil fuel Max, an alternate-history fantasy that imagines what might have happened if a Jewish art dealer named Max Rothman (John Cusack) had befriended Adolf Hitler (Noah Taylor) when he was a frustrated artist, before he turned to politics to vent his hatred. Some critics have expressed fear that even to attempt to make Hitler understandable is to diffuse or dismiss his malignancy; but watching Hitler vacillate between Rothman's attempts at mentorship and the encouragement of an ambitious military officer demonstrates the pettiness, desperation and craven need that can bring horror into the world. Cusack portrays a generous man with simple decency and not a trace of grandstanding, but Taylor--with glittering eyes and lips twisted with bile--is both fascinating and repellent in an impressive performance. An intelligent and complex film, Max deserves to find an audience. --Bret Fetzer

DVD Description
Munich 1918. The First World War is over and the city is packed with German soldiers returning to find their country in ruins. One soldier is Max Rothman (John Cusack), a promising artist who lost an arm in the war and with it his ability to paint. On his return, Max opens an art gallery where he meets a struggling artist called Adolf Hitler (Noah Taylor). Max isn’t completely convinced by Hitler’s artistic abilities but he encourages his creative talent anyway. Meanwhile the lonely penniless Hitler becomes increasingly envious of Max’s wealthy German Jewish family and their popularity. Disillusioned with art, Hitler turns increasingly to politics, setting into motion the most cataclysmic period in world history.

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7 of 8 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Sympathy for the Devil, 17 Mar 2005
By Louise Stanley (Reading, Berkshire United Kingdom) - See all my reviews
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I never thought I'd see a movie that actually tried to portray Hitler as a decent chap, but this one pulls it off in style. It would have been good with a "happy" ending, but maybe that's just too far-fetched for what the film was trying to do - understand the conditions in which young(ish - Hitler is already thirty) minds are so easily warped and twisted until they become monstrous.

Cusack is Max Rothman, and he makes a good job of it - I didn't realise he could do both this and "Being John Malkovich" and ace them both. Noah Taylor makes a convincing Hitler (without the trademark moustache), a small grey splotch in an otherwise colourful milieu. The director has gone to inordinate lengths to distinguish between Rothman's whirling, fresh, high society, and Hitler's miserable, colourless and ugly barrack life.

The film is expertly constructed, with every second filled with tension, and a genuine question mark over the ending. I have never watched such an unpredictable film; there are shots which play with this ambiguity throughout and the characterisation of the Jews as loyal subjects is pleasing, having seen so many films in the past where history is projected backwards, the most obvious of these being the line in "Onegin" where early nineteenth-century gentlemen "predict" the Russian revolution.

A word of warning, though - make sure you have something lighter to watch (e.g. an episode of your favourite comedy) afterwards, as you will need reassurance that the world is not all bad.

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8 of 10 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Max is really really really really really good. Really good., 29 Feb 2004
This, along with The Singing Detective (nullify my opinion now, if you like) was one of, I think, the best films of last year. The film follows Max (John Cusack), a Jewish art dealer, and his fraught relationship with an angry, angry Hitler (Noah Taylor), living in squalid barracks and carrying a huge chip on his shoulder. With the guidance of his Jewish mentor, he gains some semblance of control, but we know he won't maintain this pretense of reason...
So the film is scary, teetering on the edge of hysteria, blending 1930's suburbia with omnipresent anarchy- a clashing of naïvity and genocide (strangely poignant in a rather bizarre Aryan puppet-show) and it's cast, from bit-parts to starring roles flesh out brilliantly- the films' adpetness at creating thumbnail portraits with a few words and a side-long glance is astonishing.
There have been gripes about it- that it's unfulfilling of it's huge potential, that it's historically innaccurate, that Hitler's eye-brows were slightly better trimmed, but I think the deft way in which the film handles small issues while still dealing with far-raching themes and, at the end of the day, a topic that has scarred the last century is admirable- and as for accusations of innaccuracy, I believe Hitler abandoned any thoughts of a career in art before the first world war, so the film doesn't pretend to be text book.
'Tis a work of art, a labour of Bohemian love and one of the few films I've seen with the line 'Hitler, c'mon, I'll buy you a lemonade' in it. It's fiction... It's been a while since I saw it at the cinema, but I'm fairly sure that none of the events portrayed happened- I have a GCSE in history to prove it- so let's sit back, enjoy, spook ourselves with Taylor's frightening performance, bask in the warm glow of Cusack's benevolence, and wallow in the sheer perfection of acting in general, atmosphere and attention to (purely fictional, mark me) detail.
James says: let the few descrepancies they take with history pass, and enjoy this thought-provoking flight of fantasy, I mean, we all know Hitler couldn't paint- but if John Cusack told me he was my father, I'd believe him.
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2 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars The birth of futurism..., 28 Dec 2004
This review is from: Max [DVD] [2003] [Region 1] [US Import] [NTSC] (DVD)
This film captures the reeling dysphoria of what I always imagined as the grimey, freezing, post-Versailles Germany unerringly... This is no biopic, Adolf Hitler is here used more as a trope for the inevitability of military-modernism, futurism from the sludge and despair of a country squeezed "till the pips squeek[ed]".

The two lead performances are magnificent; Noah Taylor's ranting importunate Hitler gathers malignant stature as he slowly falls into the beligerant mood of the time; Cusack's, slick, thoughtful lothario convinces throughout and underlines his position to the fore of American acting talent.

Highly recommended viewing.

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4.0 out of 5 stars From third-rate artist to monster
It starts in Germany in 1918. The army has lost; peace is about to be signed. Max Rothman (John Cusack), who lost an arm fighting, has set up a gallery in an old factory. Read more
Published 23 months ago by C. O. DeRiemer

2.0 out of 5 stars Drama That Lacks Something
The film is set immediately after World War 1. Adolf Hitler is penniless and looking to channel his energy into something he believes in. Read more
Published on 6 Aug 2004 by Roy Matthews

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