71SSIFF - 22/30 September 2023
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09-23-2020

‘Méndez Esparza focuses on listening carefully and on putting us, the viewers, in the position of justice administrators dealing with what are always delicate family matters’. Víctor Esquirol, Gara

 

‘The stories comprising the plot have real-life emotional punch’. Oti R. Marchante, ABC

 

‘Doesn’t massage the audience. Rather, it questions them, and makes them uncomfortable’. Juan Zapater, Noticias de Gipuzkoa

‘With its sublime artistic direction, Sutemose (...) transports us to the miserable lives of Lithuanian Partisans in 1948’. Harkaitz Cano, El Diario Vasco

 

In the Dusk is like a terrifying fable in which Bartas makes clear there is no room for light’. Víctor Esquirol, Gara

 

‘Sharunas Bartas’ film is magnetic, at times almost artistically so’. Ricardo Aldarondo, El Diario Vasco

‘As a couple starting down the barrel of early-onset dementia, a peak-form Firth and Tucci give nuance and ballast to Harry Macqueen’s small but beautifully formed sophomore film’. Guy Lodge, Variety

 

‘A film oozing with sensitivity and style, even shamelessly pulling at the heartstrings’. Oti R. Marchante, ABC

 

‘A poignant portrait of love in autumn’. Stephen Dalton, The Hollywood Reporter

Beginning marks an auspicious bow for a new art house talent’. Sheri Linden, The Hollywood Reporter

‘Has some great cinematic attributes, such as believing in, and taking risks with how the story is told, yet still condemning and not dodging questions that no one will answer’. Begoña del Teso, El Diario Vasco

‘A collective poem, a collection of feelings and shared losses, a personal memoir of things so private they must be kept in a small box’. Mikel G. Gurpegui, El Diario Vasco

‘A domestic comedy – indeed, anti-romcom – with some lively performances and a bold-caps feminist message’. Jonathan Romney, Screen Daily

 
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