50
A counterproductively "literary" film with no satisfying payoffs, Rutger Hauer's blind recluse notwithstanding.
What are people saying?
What are critics saying?
83
It seems like a statement that Il Futuro presents simple but intriguing conflicts that nonetheless resolve anti-climactically, denying us an organic end.
90
The New York Times by Jeannette Catsoulis
Ms. Scherson’s style — backed wholeheartedly by the cool cinematography of Ricardo de Angelis — may value mood over information, but it’s the perfect vehicle for a portrait of two damaged souls grasping for a security they no longer possess.
70
The Hollywood Reporter by John DeFore
Thoughtful and less sensationalistic than its premise might suggest, it's made for arthouses and offers a fine showcase for costar Rutger Hauer.
80
It’s wonderful to think that a movie is, for a change, ahead of you.
80
Il Futuro is a playful, soulful movie, affecting because it’s populated by lost children who can somehow sense they’re in a movie, and that in a movie, the only future is The End.
80
Los Angeles Times by Robert Abele
The atmospheric heft of Il Futuro is invariably more bracing than oppressive, and in the complexly stoic Martelli and masterfully craggy, haunted Hauer, an alluringly opaque pas de deux of loss and uncertainty is wonderfully realized.