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  • 2015
  • R
  • Aya Pro
  • 1 h 41 m
  • 2015
  • R
  • Aya Pro
  • 1 h 41 m

Summary When fires sweep through the rainforest near their property along the Parana River, a poor tobacco-farming family goes on high alert. The head of the family, João, (Chico Díaz) correctly suspects the fire is a result of slash-and-burn tactics by ruthless land-grabbers intent on acquiring the farm he shares with his lovely daughter, Vânia...

Directed By: Pablo Fendrik

Written By: Pablo Fendrik

  • 2015
  • R
  • Aya Pro
  • 1 h 41 m
  • 2015
  • R
  • Aya Pro
  • 1 h 41 m

Ardor

Metascore Mixed or Average Based on 13 Critic Reviews
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Summary When fires sweep through the rainforest near their property along the Parana River, a poor tobacco-farming family goes on high alert. The head of the family, João, (Chico Díaz) correctly suspects the fire is a result of slash-and-burn tactics by ruthless land-grabbers intent on acquiring the farm he shares with his lovely daughter, Vânia...

Directed By: Pablo Fendrik

Written By: Pablo Fendrik

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Metascore
Mixed or Average Based on 13 Critic Reviews
48
31% Positive
4 Reviews
54% Mixed
7 Reviews
15% Negative
2 Reviews

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Metascore
Mixed or Average Based on 13 Critic Reviews
48
31% Positive
4 Reviews
54% Mixed
7 Reviews
15% Negative
2 Reviews

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80
Jun 18, 2015
Clearly modelled on a familiar western narrative, Pablo Fendrik's The Burning (2014) both embraces and playfully inverts the tropes that define its genre classification.
By Ben Nicholson FULL REVIEW
63
Jul 17, 2015
The film itself falls short on two crucial levels: it’s neither sufficiently profound nor intoxicating enough to justify or transcend its self-seriousness. As good-looking as the movie and its stars are, Ardor, whose title refers to a literal state of burning, never manages to catch fire.
By Glenn Kenny FULL REVIEW
50
Jul 16, 2015
This slow-paced, cut-to-the-bone drama ought to be gripping, especially as the jungle and its beasts make their presence felt. But curiously, Ardor lacks tension, maybe because the actors are playing archetypes: Little is said, and there are few surprises.
By Daniel M. Gold FULL REVIEW
50
Jul 16, 2015
Ardor is never boring, but it’s never all that engaging, either. Here is a movie that ends with a can’t-miss scenario — a siege on a farmhouse in which the heroes are vastly outnumbered and outgunned — yet still fails to ever quicken your pulse.
By Rene Rodriguez FULL REVIEW
50
Jun 18, 2015
While there's some novelty in using genre conventions to contemplate the sin of taming a wild frontier, the reverential film takes itself far too seriously; it ends up being neither sufficiently inventive nor revisionist to surmount its archetypal cliches.
By David Rooney FULL REVIEW
40
Jun 18, 2015
Writer-director Pablo Fendrik takes the whole thing terribly seriously, punctuating the action with ponderous slo-mo and laughably pompous discussions about Bernal’s spirit jaguar.
By Tom Huddleston FULL REVIEW
38
Jul 13, 2015
It broods along as if it's expressing something monumentally important with each slow-as-molasses camera move.
By Carson Lund FULL REVIEW

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Production Company Magma Cine, Bananeira Filmes, Manny Films, Canana Films, IMVAL Producciones, Participant, Televisión Federal (Telefe)
Release Date Jul 17, 2015
Duration 1 h 41 m
Rating R
Genres
Tagline When you're surrounded, defending yourself is the least you can do.
Website http://www.takepart.com/ardor
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Awards

Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences of Argentina
• 10 Nominations
Argentinean Film Critics Association Awards
• 4 Nominations
Premios Fénix (Fenix Film Awards)
• 1 Win & 2 Nominations

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