Directed by Milorad Krstić
Starring Iván Kamarás and Gabriella Hámori
Running time: 1 hour 36 minutes
MPAA rating: R

by Deborah Krieger

Stendhal Syndrome describes the phenomenon of being completely overcome with an extreme physical, mental, and/or emotional response to viewing a work of art. Symptoms include shortness of breath, dizziness, fainting, heart attacks, giddiness, dissociation, or even hallucinations, all triggered by experiencing something of particularly high artistic quality. The awe mingles with a sense of disorientation, leaving the viewer dazed and excitable and moved to agony. (People have been known to fall prey to these reactions when seeing Michelangelo’s Sistine Chapel ceiling or the David.)