90
Village Voice
Scherson, adapting Roberto Bolaño's novel, incorporates surrealistic, hyper-expressive visual techniques, resulting in a film that is excitingly unclassifiable.
The Future (Il futuro)
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- Italy,
- Chile,
- Germany,
- Spain
- 2013
- · 94m
Director
Alicia Scherson
Cast
Manuela Martelli,
Nicolas Vaporidis,
Luigi Ciardo,
Alessandro Giallocosta,
Pino Calabrese,
Rutger Hauer
Genre
Drama
When their parents die, Bianca starts to smoke and Tomas is still a virgin. The orphans explore the dangerous streets of adulthood until Bianca finds Maciste, a retired Mr. Universe, and enters his dark mansion in search of a future.
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What are critics saying?
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.
90
Village Voice by John Oursler
Scherson, adapting Roberto Bolaño's novel, incorporates surrealistic, hyper-expressive visual techniques, resulting in a film that is excitingly unclassifiable.
83
The Playlist by Gabe Toro
It seems like a statement that Il Futuro presents simple but intriguing conflicts that nonetheless resolve anti-climactically, denying us an organic 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.
80
The Dissolve by Noel Murray
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
Time Out by Joshua Rothkopf
It’s wonderful to think that a movie is, for a change, ahead of you.
80
Variety by Alissa Simon
Even though mood trumps character psychology, the entire cast provides mesmerizing, evocative performances.
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.
50
Slant Magazine
A counterproductively "literary" film with no satisfying payoffs, Rutger Hauer's blind recluse notwithstanding.
50
Slant Magazine by Bill Weber
A counterproductively "literary" film with no satisfying payoffs, Rutger Hauer's blind recluse notwithstanding.
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