Styx

DVD Features

Commentary with Director Wolfgang Fischer and Actress Susanne Wolff
Short Film

Sound: Stereo and 5.1

Discs: 1

• Highest Rating
  "Styx weaves a lean and gripping parable about the refugee crisis...a spartan (wo)man-versus-nature adventure tale in the style of All Is Lost, and one that’s even more strikingly authentic in its depiction of ocean sailing than J.C. Chandor’s film."
  Keith Watson, Slant Magazine
• Highest Rating
  "A taut moral thriller...."
  Manohla Dargis, The New York Times
• Highest Rating
  "A blunt, breathless, and astoundingly unsentimental morality play that’s told with the intensity of a ticking-clock thriller.... "
  David Ehrlich, IndieWire
• Highest Rating
  "Like the small sailboat on which it is set, Wolfgang Fischer’s extraordinarily gripping account of a one-woman solo voyage across the Atlantic that is suddenly interrupted when she comes across a sinking trawler overloaded with refugees, is brisk, efficient and thrillingly dynamic. This is “All Is Lost” with a spinning moral compass and a topical dimension that proves even more gripping than its brilliantly achieved visceral action."
  Jessica Kiang, Variety
• Highest Rating
  "'Styx' is minimalist filmmaking executed in superbly sharp fashion. Susanne Wolff... accomplishes more in a glance than most of her peers could ever hope to achieve with minute-long, uninterrupted diatribes. Benedict Nuenfels’s cinematography steals your undivided attention, and never once relents its evocative authority. "
  Jonathan Christian, The Playlist
• Highest Rating
  "Carrying practically the entire film, Wolff is never less than remarkable in a demanding role that’s 80 percent silence and 20 percent English-language dialogue. The fully inhabited turn should further help cement her international status as a star to be reckoned with...."
  Boyd van Hoeij, The Hollywood Reporter
• Highest Rating
  "A captivating maritime thriller…beautiful, thought-provoking and intense. Definitely see this one if you get the chance. "
  Sean Boelman, PopAxiom
• Highest Rating
  "...with such effective, precise performances on both sides of the camera—making tension a constant in the changing inflection of physical and moral jeopardy—Styx emerges as one of the fest’s best."
  Adrian Mack, The Georgia Straight
• Highest Rating
  "**** (4 stars) A slow burn thriller…the film ends with a devastating and quite beautiful gut punch."
  Ryne Clos, Spectrum Culture
• Highest Rating
  "A thinking person’s survival drama."
  Jen Johans, Film Intuition
• Highest Rating
  "As contemplative as it is engrossing...."
  Jim Ross, Take One Cinema
• Highest Rating
  "A captivating, exhilarating cinematic experience."
  Alex Billington, FirstShowing.net
• Highest Rating
  "Styx mixes the inherent danger of man versus nature with man's callous indifference to man, managing to be both eternal and contemporary in its concerns. The result is as dramatically satisfying as it is morally troubling."
  Tom Long, The Detroit News