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88Cristián Jiménez's film knows how entangled the will to know is with the will to make love.
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75This isn't a story of Shakespearean proportions, but it's a sweet peg for this complex, carefully constructed gem.
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70There's nothing obscure about young love and loss, and a story, as Mr. Jiménez put it, about "youngsters who have to deal with this sudden lack of certainties which makes them more lonely than they could have ever imagined."
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May 8, 201270Bonsái seems like a veritable thicket of illuminating references and correspondences. A kind of poetry sprouts up even in some of the inevitable sad-twee flourishes.
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70By turns gentle, deadpan, droll and sarcastic, Jimenez's film reflects on Proust's "Remembrance of Things Past" to track a sweet but doomed love affair between literary -- and pleasurably randy -- college students.
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May 8, 201260Jimenez makes a youthful film about sex, lies and literature that has the awkward charm of first love.
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May 8, 201260Jiménez's drama is crisply imprinted; another fine recent Chilean effort.
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60Cristián Jiménez's dust-dry dramedy attests to the writer-director's own bibliophilia (the film is literally divided by chapter pages), as well as his lead actor's ability to milk a deadpan look that would make Buster Keaton proud.
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40It has its moments, although the charmless main character Julio (played by Diego Noguera) begins to get on your nerves, as he seems incapable of extricating himself from difficult situations.