70
Village Voice by Amy Taubin
As fragmented and unresolved as the experiences of mother and daughter, Alma bears witness to a situation for which there are no easy answers.
Alma
User Rating
- Spain
- 2015
- · 97m
Director
Diego Rougier
Cast
Javiera Contador,
Fernando Larraín,
Nicolás Cabré,
Marcial Tagle,
Carmen Gloria Bresky,
María Izquierdo,
Angélica Castro,
Fernando Godoy,
Paz Bascuñan,
Ramón Llao
Genre
Romance,
Comedy,
Drama
Fernando is married to Alma, a very funny woman with bipolar disorder, which kicks him when she learns that he no longer supports her. When Alma meets an Argentine suitor Fernando reacts discovering that still love her. But it's too late.
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What are critics saying?
70
TV Guide Magazine by Maitland McDonagh
Enthralling, darkly funny, horrifying and hopeful.
50
New York Post by Jonathan Foreman
The documentary equivalent of a Southern Gothic novel.
50
Austin Chronicle by Jerry Johnson
It's an exploration by the audience, the filmmakers, and the subjects themselves of a kind you've never quite seen in a documentary before.
50
Chicago Reader by Ted Shen
In the manner of a southern gothic, they never fail to fascinate.
20
The New York Times by Lawrence Van Gelder
Begins to seem not so much an examination but an exploitation.
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