✭ ✭ ✭ Read critic reviews
Argentina, Netherlands · 2002
1h 30m
Director Diego Lerman
Starring Tatiana Saphir, Carla Crespo, Veronica Hassan, Beatriz Thibaudin
Genre Drama, Comedy
Please login to add films to your watchlist.
Marcia (Tatiana Saphir), a frumpy and overweight salesgirl who seems to lead a banal and dreary existence, goes to work one day. As she walks she catches the eye of a feisty butch punk woman named Mao (Carla Crespo) who tells Marcia she wants to seduce her. Marcia tells Mao that she's not a lesbian, but Mao is relentless. With the help of her friend Lenin (Veronica Hassan), Mao manages to talk Marcia into getting into a cab that the two lesbian women then immediately car-jack.
We hate to say it, but we can't find anywhere to view this film.
At first look, it's a stark and thin story of misguided youth. But give it a week. The girls stay with you, the small moments echo, and you realize that, though this movie doesn't lend itself to a punchy summary, it lends itself to the screen.
The New York Times by A.O. Scott
When Suddenly finds its soul in the last half-hour, the title begins to make a lovely sort of sense.
A delightfully unpredictable sleeper that proves new Argentine cinema really exists, Suddenly, by 26-year-old Diego Lerman, starts scary, moves through deadpan comic and comes out with a whimsical tenderness for its characters.
A humane, unassumingly quirky rumination on chance and caprice.
New York Daily News by Elizabeth Weitzman
Just when you think it's a violent drama, it turns into a comic road picture, before finally becoming a tender romance.
This warm, ultimately poignant film hoes its own row, and proves once again the diversity and vitality of contemporary Argentine film.
Heavily indebted to the early work of Jim Jarmusch, both for its evocative use of black and white and its tone of deadpan quirkiness, Suddenly is typical arthouse fare, long on atmosphere and fine acting but short on urgency and ambition.
This isn't a straight-on comedy by a long shot. It's a quirky character study that will make everyone in the audience laugh at different places.
Doesn't always succeed -- the premise is hard to believe. Still, it's an unusual and interesting piece of filmmaking.
A Hong Kong actress goes to France to star in a remake of a French silent film.
It is time to sweep off the dust of everyday life.
Spider-Man faces a crisis from across the multiverse.
When a young woman, Bella, is reanimated by an eccentric physician, she begins her life anew, exploring the pleasures of the world.
A quiet, neglected young girl is sent away from her dysfunctional family to live with distant relatives for the summer.