Little Girl (La Pivellina)
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  • Summary: In a run-down park on the outskirts of Rome, a two year-old girl is discovered and taken in by a family of hard-luck circus performers. A note in the child's pocket from a desperate mother reveals little about who she is or why she was left. As the bond grows between the girl and her surrogate family, this naturalistic drama becomes a revealing and soulful portrait of courage and discrimination, and of loss and togetherness. (First Run Features)… Expand

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  1. Positive: 2 out of 4
  2. Mixed: 2 out of 4
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  1. Time Out New York
    Reviewed by: S. James Snyder
    Aug 30, 2011
    80
    It's in the periphery of this daily minutiae that Covi and Frimmel work their neorealistic magic, turning what might have been a sappy maternal-awakening melodrama into a simplistic, genuinely sweet tribute to motherhood, Italian style.
  2. Village Voice
    Reviewed by: Nick Pinkerton
    Aug 30, 2011
    70
    Scenes showing the tricky process of acclimatizing a child to new surroundings, and the patchwork of experiences that make up an education - both Asia's and Tairo's - are grounded by entirely affectless performances, not least that of little Asia Crippa.
  3. The New York Times
    Reviewed by: Jeannette Catsoulis
    Aug 31, 2011
    60
    Though at times too determined to avoid dramatic highs and lows, Little Girl strikes gold in the casting of the 2-year-old Asia Crippa.

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