Stefan Zweig: Farewell to Europe

This intelligent biopic is kept aloft by Josef Hader's sensitive performance as the kind, gentlemanly Zweig.

What's audacious and subtly seductive about Stefan Zweig: Farewell to Europe is Schrader's attempt to trace its hero's pacific charm through highly charged public and private moments.

I was mesmerized by this film--it's an exceptional piece of work, not to be missed.

Its more or less interesting when it intimately portrays the last days of the Austrian writer, but I fear that, at its dramatic core, there is an absence of verve that is prolonged by superfluous dialogues. [Full review in Spanish]