60
Jimenez makes a youthful film about sex, lies and literature that has the awkward charm of first love.
What are people saying?
What are critics saying?
60
Cristián Jiménez's dust-dry dramedy attests to the writer-director's own bibliophilia (the film is literally divided by chapter pages), as well as his lead actor's ability to milk a deadpan look that would make Buster Keaton proud.
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Slant Magazine by Diego Semerene
Cristián Jiménez's film knows how entangled the will to know is with the will to make love.
70
The New York Times by Manohla Dargis
There's nothing obscure about young love and loss, and a story, as Mr. Jiménez put it, about "youngsters who have to deal with this sudden lack of certainties which makes them more lonely than they could have ever imagined."
40
Boxoffice Magazine by Richard Mowe
It has its moments, although the charmless main character Julio (played by Diego Noguera) begins to get on your nerves, as he seems incapable of extricating himself from difficult situations.
70
By turns gentle, deadpan, droll and sarcastic, Jimenez's film reflects on Proust's "Remembrance of Things Past" to track a sweet but doomed love affair between literary -- and pleasurably randy -- college students.
75
This isn't a story of Shakespearean proportions, but it's a sweet peg for this complex, carefully constructed gem.