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Intimate Stories

Generally favorable reviews
Based on 13 critic reviews
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Based on 12 votes
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Movie Info
Genre(s): Comedy | Drama | Foreign
Written by: Pablo Solarz
Directed by: Carlos Sorin
Release Date:
Theatrical: March 4, 2005
DVD: July 18, 2006
Running Time: 92 minutes, Color
Origin: Argentina / Spain
Summary
RATING: Not Rated
Starring Javier Lombardo, Antonio Benedicti, Javiera Bravo, Julia Solomonoff, Laura Vagnoni, Enrique Otranto, Mariela Díaz, and María Rosa Cianferoni
Set in the otherworldly expanses of Southern Patagonia, this quirkily comic road-movie is a distinctive blend of bemused satire and gentle humanism. (New Yorker Films)
What The Critics Said
All critic scores are converted to a 100-point scale. If a critic does not indicate a score, we assign a score based on the general impression given by the text of the review. Learn more...
Entertainment Weekly 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.
Read Full Review >Variety David Rooney
Endowed with captivating simplicity, gentle humor, rich humanity and infectious generosity of spirit.
Read Full Review >Seattle Post-Intelligencer Bill White
Genuinely funny and sweet, the film's "everybody wins" philosophy resonates beyond the feel-good surfaces.
Read Full Review >Village Voice David Ng
It's a perfectly realized grace note whose lack of any obvious message only reinforces the movie's abundant wisdom and patient humanism.
Read Full Review >The New Republic 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.
Read Full Review >New York Daily News Elizabeth Weitzman
As stripped down as its title, this gentle Argentinian road movie makes much out of very little.
Read Full Review >New York Post V.A. Musetto
Has no profound statements to make, but it does provide warm and fuzzy comfort.
Read Full Review >Salon.com Andrew O'Hehir
This is a charming, low-key entry in the burgeoning tradition of travelog indies -- by which I mean feature films that take you to some godforsaken outback you're unlikely to visit personally.
Read Full Review >The New York Times 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.
Read Full Review >TV Guide Ken Fox
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.
Read Full Review >The Onion (A.V. Club) Noel Murray
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.
Read Full Review >What Our Users Said
The average user rating for this movie is 8.6 (out of 10) based on 12 User Votes
Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.
Donald W. gave it a3:
The english translation of the title is incorrect: "minimas" means "smallest", not "intimate," and these three stories are about the smallest you'll ever sit through. Nearly as boring as the Patagonian countryside where it takes place.
Gali V. gave it a10:
Great movie, heart warming!
Richard K. gave it an8:
Lovely little film with very engaging characters and with great whimsy.
Karen V. gave it a10:
Best Argentine film I've seen since Nueve Reinas... Is a tough yet realistic vision of solitude and distress in the Patagonia.
Jean M. gave it a10:
The best movie I've seen in years. Saw it last night, and am still stunned, can't get it out of my mind. I can't imagine how your voters can have been so ungenerous with their ratings.
David C. gave it an8:
Just a delightful movie with many smiles and chuckles. No serious point or message but most moviegoers will go away feeling very satisfied.
