90
The New York Times by Stephen Holden
Ms. Chaplin, in one of her most touching screen performances, imbues Anne with a world-weary melancholy that makes your heart sink.
Sand Dollars (Dólares de arena)
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- Dominican Republic,
- Mexico,
- Argentina
- 2014
- · 85m
Director
Israel Cárdenas
Cast
Geraldine Chaplin,
Yanet Mojica,
Ricardo Ariel Toribio,
Ramón Cordero,
Bernard Bizel
Genre
Drama
Noeli is a young Dominican woman who works as a tourist escort on the beach at Las Terrenas. She has, what she interprets to be, a business relationship with an older, French woman named Anne, who could help her with her wish to reconnect with family in Spain. However, Anne and Noeli don't see eye to eye. Anne longs for a different kind of relationship, but Noeli has a boyfriend, Yeremi...
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80
Village Voice by Serena Donadoni
Guzmán and Cárdenas present this tropical island as both Anne's romantic refuge and Noelí's exploitative landscape, a beautiful, enchanting — and realistic — Eden where snakes are merely snakes.
80
Variety by Jay Weissberg
Chaplin’s performance is characterized by a lack of vanity and an almost magical combination of empathy and pathos.
75
Slant Magazine by Elise Nakhnikian
It respects and plumbs the feelings of all three main characters while surfacing the economic, ethnic, cultural, and gender power imbalances in their relationships.
70
Los Angeles Times by Katie Walsh
Sand Dollars has an assured, light touch.
70
The Hollywood Reporter
Playing out against a dreamy Caribbean backdrop, Sand Dollars is indeed about dreams, unpicking those of a gracefully aging lady and her young lover with a trembling delicacy and attentiveness.
70
The Hollywood Reporter by Jonathan Holland
Playing out against a dreamy Caribbean backdrop, Sand Dollars is indeed about dreams, unpicking those of a gracefully aging lady and her young lover with a trembling delicacy and attentiveness.
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