Childhood is so often seen as a period of unbridled promise and accumulation — of things, of knowledge, of friends and family — that the death of a parent can seem like the most confounding and terrible of erasures for a still-forming mind to process. For six-year-old Frida (Laia Artigas), the autobiographical protagonist around which Catalan filmmaker Carla Simón has crafted her touching debut feature “Summer 1993,” the loss of her mother puts her in a dizzying confluence of attention, love, discipline, freedom and pain when she’s taken from her city home to live in the Catalan countryside with her aunt and uncle.
But rather than adopt an excuse to turn this hardship material into easy sentiment, Simón treats this very personal matter with a focused, unhurried wisdom for the ways even a left-turn girlhood can still be a celebration of being young, alive and open.
Anchored by a pair of extraordinary...
But rather than adopt an excuse to turn this hardship material into easy sentiment, Simón treats this very personal matter with a focused, unhurried wisdom for the ways even a left-turn girlhood can still be a celebration of being young, alive and open.
Anchored by a pair of extraordinary...
- 5/23/2018
- by Robert Abele
- The Wrap
Summer 1993 (Estiu 1993) Oscilloscope Laboratories Reviewed by: Harvey Karten Director: Carla Simón Screenwriter: Carla Simón Cast: Laia Artigas, Paula Robles, Bruna Cusí, David Verdaguer, Fermi Reixach, Isabel Rocatti Screened at: Critics’ link, NYC, 5/15/18 Opens: May 25, 2018 There was a time not so far back that little was known about AIDS, about how […]
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- 5/21/2018
- by Harvey Karten
- ShockYa
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