The New York Times by Andy Webster
The Vessel is a modest, but not maudlin, parable of hope about mustering the strength to vigorously plunge again into life’s uncertainties after a devastating loss.
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Puerto Rico, United States · 2016
Rated PG-13 · 1h 26m
Director Julio Quintana
Starring Martin Sheen, Sunshine Logroño, Julio Ramos, Leslie Van Zandt
Genre Drama
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Ten years after a tsunami destroyed a small-town elementary school with all the children inside, a young man builds a mysterious structure out of the school's remains, setting the town aflame with passions long forgotten.
The New York Times by Andy Webster
The Vessel is a modest, but not maudlin, parable of hope about mustering the strength to vigorously plunge again into life’s uncertainties after a devastating loss.
As powerfully felt and gorgeously realized as anything one may see on screen this year.
San Francisco Chronicle by David Lewis
Quintana brings a stunning visual flair to his film, and Sheen has a fine moment when he ponders the thin line between miracles and tragedies. But we keep waiting for the film to wash over us, and it never quite does.
The Hollywood Reporter by Frank Scheck
Filmed in a gorgeous, dreamlike style and Infused with heavy doses of mysticism and allegory, The Vessel is an impressive effort that loses some of its impact, however, for being so derivative.
Los Angeles Times by Gary Goldstein
It’s a strange brew: stark yet beautiful, urgent yet dreamlike.
Cuban-American writer-director Julio Quintana’s feature debut has an understated formal loveliness that helps offset its more heavy-handed allegorical inclinations.
Quintana's emphasis on Jungian dream logic gives his otherwise spartan parable a compelling mythic dimension. The Vessel may bring Malick to mind, but it also feels like a major work by an exciting new talent.
Austin Chronicle by Steve Davis
The Vessel speaks eloquently. It’s a testament to the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things unseen.
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