The cold, eerie tone combined with the videogame subplot is reminiscent of Demonlover, though whereas Assayas traded substance for style, Glawogger’s film is mostly a cerebral affair, but no less hip, stylish, or suspenseful. Das Vaterspiel explores questions and dilemmas without spoon-fed morality or convenient third-act resolutions. This is a powerful, challenging film, and one of the few at the festival that actually expected its audience to think for themselves.
GREENCINE
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Glawogger pitches the story at a very precise level of cinematic wanderlust, where developments from one scene to the next are charted out by a cryptic pattern whose lines can just barely be discerned…remains the most interesting movie of the 2009 Berlinale.
THE AUTEURS NOTEBOOK
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It was, therefore, with some relief that I sat through Michael Glawogger’s latest film, “Das Vaterspiel”…its cussed strangeness, combined with its maker’s obvious ambition, at least held my interest, and even made me think, the only film in the programme to do so thus far.
INDIEWIRE

Intelligent and involving, this film grabs our interest due to the intense themes that gurgle constantly under the surface…thoughtful and provocative…What makes the film work is the sensitivity of the actors’ performances and the extreme contrasts between Ratz’s over-the-top videogame and the muted ex-Nazi hiding from the world…the film keeps our minds spinning long after it’s over.
SHADOWS ON THE WALL
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Glawogger’s adaption took a lot- and triumphs….an eye for detail and preserved, regardless of what time of history it is at. Whether it is costume, design or architecture, everything is consistent…his elegant visual style manifests itself
CRITIC.DE

An ambitious, multi-layered and complex film puzzle…Glawogger at his best, it stays in the memory for a long time
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