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Director
Gastón Solnicki
Cast
Laila Maltz,
Katia Szechtman,
Lara Tarlowski,
Natali Maltz,
María Soldi
Genre
Drama
An unconventionally observational portrait of a group of unnamed teenage girls in Argentina, daughters of wealthy industrialists and on the precipice of adulthood. They each attempt to navigate employment, education, and above all, their own boredom. Loosely adapted from Bela Bartok's sole opera, the one-act Bluebeard's Castle.
The A.V. Club by Mike D'Angelo
Solnicki has admitted in interviews that he more or less made the movie up as he went along, not knowing quite what he was after, and it shows. But he has a remarkable eye and boundless curiosity, and those two qualities are enough to sustain a brief yet restlessly inventive exploration like this one.
Variety by Scott Tobias
It takes an uncommon talent to keep the mundane from seeming inert, and through Solnicki’s lens, the absence of outer conflict doesn’t mute the turmoil within.
The Film Stage
With all of its ingrained sadness and complex shifts, both the fabricated idyll of youth and distressed independence of adulthood are executed as if they were a casual dream, never becoming as nightmarish as they ought to be.
Slant Magazine by Clayton Dillard
Like Shohei Imamura, Argentinian writer-director Gaston Solnicki can be understood as a cinematic "entomologist."
The Film Stage by Jason Ooi
With all of its ingrained sadness and complex shifts, both the fabricated idyll of youth and distressed independence of adulthood are executed as if they were a casual dream, never becoming as nightmarish as they ought to be.
The New York Times by Ben Kenigsberg
Even seasoned defenders of cryptic formalism may find it amorphous. The characters are never named, the camera work is static, and little that’s conceptually interesting materializes.
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