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  • 2015
  • R
  • Sony Pictures Classics
  • 1 h 52 m
  • 2015
  • R
  • Sony Pictures Classics
  • 1 h 52 m

Summary As we follow a mother (Jennifer Connelly) and her son (Cillian Murphy), we delve into a past marred by an accident that tears them apart. She will become a renowned artist and healer, and he will grow into his own and a peculiar falconer who bears the marks of a double absence. In the present, a young journalist (Mélanie Laurent) will br...

Directed By: Claudia Llosa

Written By: Claudia Llosa

  • 2015
  • R
  • Sony Pictures Classics
  • 1 h 52 m
  • 2015
  • R
  • Sony Pictures Classics
  • 1 h 52 m

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Metascore Generally Unfavorable Based on 20 Critic Reviews
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Summary As we follow a mother (Jennifer Connelly) and her son (Cillian Murphy), we delve into a past marred by an accident that tears them apart. She will become a renowned artist and healer, and he will grow into his own and a peculiar falconer who bears the marks of a double absence. In the present, a young journalist (Mélanie Laurent) will br...

Directed By: Claudia Llosa

Written By: Claudia Llosa

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Metascore
Generally Unfavorable Based on 20 Critic Reviews
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5% Positive
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50% Mixed
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45% Negative
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Generally Unfavorable Based on 20 Critic Reviews
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5% Positive
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50% Mixed
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45% Negative
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70
May 22, 2015
I found myself often enraptured by this sad little story. Its weird narrative of faith healing serves as an intriguing diversion from the real matter at hand — the notion that grace lies in the search for help, rather than the finding of it.
By Bilge Ebiri FULL REVIEW
50
Jun 12, 2015
Bleak and painfully earnest.
By Steven Rea FULL REVIEW
40
May 21, 2015
Dreariness seems to be the filmmaker's shorthand for authenticity here. Without any realism to ground it, the movie's spiritual story line feels aloft — swirling around but never dramatically landing.
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40
Apr 21, 2015
Strip away its gorgeous wintry landscapes and we are left with a symphony of ponderous New Age mumbo-jumbo masquerading as philosophical wisdom.
By Stephen Dalton FULL REVIEW
38
May 17, 2015
The film's images, so continually heartrending so as to never become redundant, effectively function as visual proselytizing.
By Jesse Cataldo FULL REVIEW
30
May 21, 2015
There are reasons why everyone on screen looks as unhappy as they do, but Llosa puts viewers in a place where they can’t understand precisely why, so the only choice is to sit there marinating in misery and boredom.
By Scott Tobias FULL REVIEW
20
Apr 21, 2015
Llosa shoots for the stars with her oblique pseudo-think piece, but unfortunately ends up dragging her latest offering down to the bottom of the coldest, darkest abyss of cod spirituality imaginable.
By Daniel Green FULL REVIEW

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Production Company Wanda Visión S.A., Arcadia Motion Pictures, Buffalo Gal Pictures, Manitoba Films AIE, Noodles Production, Mogambo
Release Date May 22, 2015
Duration 1 h 52 m
Rating R
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Awards

Málaga Spanish Film Festival
• 1 Win & 2 Nominations
Berlin International Film Festival
• 1 Nomination

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