Lajos Koltai
Hungarian cinematographer Lajos Koltai gained international attention by way of his many collaborations with his brilliant countryman, director Istvan Szabo. Koltai's unerring cinematic eye contribute...
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Max Review
December 30, 2002 9:39am ESTIn a way, Max is an intriguing "what if." What if the young aspiring artist Adolph Hitler had befriended a fellow artist who was compassionate, wealthy and Jewish, and who also might have tempered his monstrous views, curbed his manic will to power and saved the world from the Holocaust were it not for an understandable rejection of his work? The idea is intriguing and John Cusack as the eponymous Max is sensational. But too many other elements in the film ring false.
