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It's a perfectly realized grace note whose lack of any obvious message only reinforces the movie's abundant wisdom and patient humanism.
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90
Endowed with captivating simplicity, gentle humor, rich humanity and infectious generosity of spirit.
100
Christian Science Monitor by David Sterritt
Gentle, humanistic, delicious.
75
New York Daily News by Elizabeth Weitzman
As stripped down as its title, this gentle Argentinian road movie makes much out of very little.
70
Warm and frequently very funny, Argentine director Carlos Sorin's third feature weaves together three story lines into one road-tripping adventure that's a joy ride from beginning to end.
91
Entertainment Weekly by Lisa Schwarzbaum
But while this piquant, tapas-like movie (a 2003 film- festival favorite only now being released) asserts that landscape is a kind of destiny from which one cannot escape, Sorin takes delighted, serious interest in how far a person can advance psychologically, even if all roads lead back to a home at the end of the world.
60
Intimate Stories stays doggedly, purposefully minor, in part because director Carlos Sorin and screenwriter Pablo Solarz want to explore the casual interactions of people doing nothing.
80
The New Republic by Stanley Kauffmann
The name of Hugo Colace ought to be known to the film world. He is the cinematographer of an Argentinean film called Intimate Stories. Not since some Tibetan films have I seen such vastness, sparsely inhabited, almost ringing with immensity.
70
The New York Times by Stephen Holden
Almost every frame of this modest gem of a movie, directed by Carlos Sorin from a screenplay by Pablo Solarz, conveys the emptiness of the environment in which three interwoven vignettes unfold.
75
Has no profound statements to make, but it does provide warm and fuzzy comfort.