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Collider by Maggie Lovitt
The Movie Teller is a beautiful and moving look into how cinema can bring a community together and how art can help to heal broken hearts.
The Movie Teller (La contadora de películas)
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- Chile,
- Spain,
- France,
- United Kingdom
- 2023
- · 116m
Director
Lone Scherfig
Cast
Bérénice Bejo,
Antonio de la Torre,
Daniel Brühl,
Sara Becker,
Alondra Valenzuela,
Joaquín Guzmán,
Santiago Urbina,
Elian Ponce,
Francisco Díaz,
Beltran Izquierdo
Genre
Drama,
History
María Margarita is the youngest of four siblings in a family living in a mining town in the Atacama Desert (Chile). The most special time of the week for this family is Sunday, when they all go to the movies to enjoy stories that let them escape their everyday lives by transporting them to other worlds. The girl’s parents soon realise that the little girl has a very special gift: an almost uncanny ability to recount movies. The girl’s extraordinary talent will spread throughout the village, changing the fortunes of her family as the country is transformed forever.
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TheWrap by Steve Pond
In its happiest moments, The Movie Teller is glorious and yes, a little corny; in its darkest ones, it’s still lovely and sad.
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The Hollywood Reporter by Caryn James
Graceful but slight, in the end The Movie Teller tries to do too much and accomplishes too little to fulfill its big ambitions.
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