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Daybreak

Mixed or average reviews
Based on 15 critic reviews
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Movie Info
Genre(s): Drama | Foreign
Written by: Björn Runge
Directed by: Björn Runge
Release Date:
Theatrical: February 2, 2005
Running Time: 108 minutes, Color
Origin: Sweden
Language(s): Swedish (with English subtitles)
Summary
RATING: R for language including sexual references
Starring Pernilla August, Jacob Eklund, Marie Richardson, Leif Andrée, Peter Andersson, Ann Petrén, Sanna Krepper, and Ingvar Hirdwall
Daybreak is a film about people in a state of change. It is a story about the need for a chance in order to survive; it is a story about love being greater than hate. (Newmarket Films)
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What The Critics Said
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Salon.com Andrew O'Hehir
Masterfully paced and constructed, and the performances are memorable.
Read Full Review >Variety Gunnar Rehlin
One of the most impressive films to come out of Sweden in the past year. Ace acting, powerful direction and engaging storylines.
Read Full Review >San Francisco Chronicle Ruthe Stein
To the extent that this difficult but ultimately rewarding film has a message, it's that you can't run away from who you are.
Read Full Review >The Onion (A.V. Club) Nathan Rabin
It maintains a strong enough sense of squirmy humanity that its characters' epiphanies and emotional growth feel both hard-earned and richly deserved.
Read Full Review >Entertainment Weekly Owen Gleiberman
The snappish domestic infighting is effectively staged, yet beneath its ''raw'' atmosphere Daybreak traffics in pop-sociological clichés.
Read Full Review >Empire Patrick Peters
Shifting between bourgeois soap, tabloid parable and tale of the unexpected, this three-storied study of salvation in extremis makes for unsettling but compelling viewing.
Read Full Review >LA Weekly Kim Morgan
Though the acting is uniformly excellent, especially Petren in her bilious rage, Daybreak doesn't provide anything like the cumulative catharsis of, say, "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf." We don't really care about these people - we just want someone to make them stop.
Read Full Review >The New York Times Stephen Holden
If Daybreak weren't so powerfully acted, its accumulating anguish would be too much to bear. As it is, all three couples, especially Knut and Mona, verge on caricature.
Read Full Review >TV Guide Ken Fox
Runge's coolly photographed, intricately plotted feature is always interesting in its execution, but disappointingly pat in its resolution.
Read Full Review >Boston Globe Ty Burr
Involving and sometimes comically bleak but never fully convincing as drama.
Read Full Review >New York Daily News Elizabeth Weitzman
If you're going to put us through hell, you'd better make it worth our while. Though Daybreak boasts a couple of minor insights and a compelling performance from Pernilla August, only the masochistically inclined will consider them sufficient reward.
Read Full Review >The Hollywood Reporter Kirk Honeycutt
The characters are so over-the-top with emotional pain -- that they are hardly credible as characters.
Read Full Review >Village Voice Melissa Anderson
A studied, overwrought look into Personal Crisis and Redemption.
Read Full Review >What Our Users Said
The average user rating for this movie is 10.0 (out of 10) based on 1 User Votes
Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.
Marty M. gave it a10:
Best film I've seen so far in the PIFF press preview weeks.
