The New York Times by Amy Nicholson
Dreams are incubators for dissatisfaction, Martins seems to sigh.
✭ ✭ ✭ ✭ Read critic reviews
Brazil · 2022
1h 55m
Director Gabriel Martins
Starring Rejane Faria, Carlos Francisco, Camilla Damião, Cícero Lucas
Genre Drama
Please login to add films to your watchlist.
The Martins family are a Black middle class family in Brazil. After the disappointing presidential election of a far-right extremist, each member of the family contends with their own fears, dreams, and challenges.
The New York Times by Amy Nicholson
Dreams are incubators for dissatisfaction, Martins seems to sigh.
Though they never call much attention to themselves, the expertly illuminated frames of cinematographer Leonardo Feliciano (“Araby”) paint the ensemble cast with purposeful and aesthetically pleasing lighting.
Tracking the personal anxieties and challenges of the family members as they pursue differently shaped dreams of escape, it is sincerely meant and deeply affectionate toward its decent, striving foursome, but it’s a little disorienting that it should cue up a gut-punch only to deliver a hug.
The film’s structure allows us to spend time both together and individually with each character, veering off with them for a day at the office, school, dance club, or park. It is simultaneously a slice of life and a film about the bigger picture.
Martins strikes a delicate balance that’s unusually satisfying from a narrative perspective. It’s refreshing to witness characters grow outside the traditional beats of most American dramas. There is an abundance of heroes’ journeys in waking up every day and pushing past surviving to thriving.
Wall Street Journal by Kyle Smith
The film is quiet, deliberate and low-key, and some may find it underwhelming, but writer-director Gabriel Martins has a novelist’s feel for his characters, taking us under everybody’s skin with deep sympathy for their differing outlooks.
The Hollywood Reporter by Lovia Gyarkye
Mars One revels in the lives of its characters, taking a leisurely and scenic route to understanding their dreams and realities.
Los Angeles Times by Robert Abele
Some not great things happen in Mars One. And there is agony. But there are also the good things done in response that keep families like these soldiering on.
It’s quite simple in structure, simply sublime in execution.
Paste Magazine by Shayna Maci Warner
Insightful, kind and exceptionally well-acted, Marte Um reminds its characters that they’ll find what they need if they just keep looking.
A knight and his Iroquois friend go on an adventure to kill a mysterious beast.
The image of a generation
Bill and Ted must write a song to unite humanity before space-time is destroyed.
A woman's life spirals out of control when she becomes involved in a passionate love triangle.
7-year-old Nora is forced by her brother to keep his abuse at the hands of classroom bullies a secret.
A paranoid man embarks on an epic odyssey to get home to his mother’s funeral.
In rural Spain, a family of peach farmers struggles to stay afloat as they face eviction from their farm.
Gil Bok-Soon balances her high-stakes assassin career with parenting her teenage daughter.
A patriarchal family yearns for the birth of a baby boy to continue the family line, while their youngest son secretly joins an erotic dance theatre and falls for an ambitious trans starlet.
In this dystopian sci-fi thriller, a biotech company has developed the ability to take years from one person’s like and give them to another – for a price.