- Running time:
- 106 minutes
- Rated:
- R
- Cast:
- Jeff Goldblum -
- Adam Stein
- Willem Dafoe -
- Commandant Klein
- Idan Alterman -
- Arthur
- Moritz Bleibtreu -
- Joseph Gracci
- Jenya Dodina -
- Gretchen
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Years after WWII, debonair and talkative Adam Stein (Jeff Goldblum, dialed up to 11) checks into a remote, high-end sanitarium that houses several survivors of the Holocaust. He takes a special interest in a young patient (newcomer Tudor Rapiteanu) who acts like a dog. The state of mind directly relates flashbacks of Adam’s past with a Nazi officer (Willem DaFoe).
The verdict: Writer-director Paul Schrader (best known for writing "Taxi Driver" and directing "American Gigolo") has been on a cold streak lately with stuff like "The Walker" and a failed "Exorcist" prequel. There's no doubt about this one extending his run of low profile non-events. "Adam" is one of the oddest Holocaust stories ever filmed, which might have given the movie an edge in a year that's produced an abnormally large number of films set during that time. But Schrader's attempt at adapting Yoram Kaniuk's novel (long considered unfilmable) is just too weird to be taken seriously, or mistaken for great art.
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