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Here's a gorgeous little film.
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83It's in the brightly observed vignettes from mall-society life, captured with a low-key, on-the-run visual style, that Burman shows his best stuff and deadpan wit.
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80It's a film of unexpected, almost indescribable off-center charm that deepens as it goes on.
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80This is a small movie about a small world, but its modesty is part of what makes it durable and satisfying.
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80Strong stuff, and all the stronger for having taken itself so comically.
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80The overall effect is of a young director treating some old problems with the cinematic lexicon of his time. So he is able to create warmth without slush.
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75Seems small in subject and scope, but it's large in spirit and implication.
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75Lively, gentle, smart.
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75In Spanish, the title of the film, El abrazo partido, translates into ''a broken embrace,'' a more fitting description of Ariel's feelings for his father.
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75Director Daniel Burman examines the ways people cope with the passing of time, whether it's weary mall employees, a broken family or the diminishing Argentinean-Jewish community.
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75A gentle comedy.
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75Has a novelist's human touch. Were it a book, it would go somewhere on the shelf with Jonathan Safran Foer and early Philip Roth.
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70The film takes a whimsical view of this insular and sometimes daft environment where everyone's eccentricities are given an opportunity to shine.
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70This delightful riff on the identity crisis of a young Jewish Argentine man deserves both the Grand Jury prize and Best Actor awards it won at last year's Berlin Film Festival.
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70At its best, Lost Embrace conveys, with real warmth, the hopelessly intertwined pasts and shared futures of a community of outsiders and immigrants. At worst, it's a sitcom without a laugh track.
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70A general lack of drama, a low-budget documentary feel and an ultraslim storyline are more than compensated for by a sterling script and performances.
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70Argentine filmmaker Daniel Burman's shaky-camera, cinema-verite-style dramedy meanders in charming fashion.
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67A film of minor pleasures.
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63The tedious film might have been worth watching if Burman had given reasons to care about Ariel or anyone else. He doesn't and we don't.
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60If you have the stomach - or the Dramamine - it's a touching, humorous take on Jewish life in contemporary Argentina.
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60Well-served by a laudably authentic ensemble, the director explores both character and ethnicity with a canny wit.
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50Despite an absurdly melodramatic premise, Lost Embrace is an essentially plotless series of riffs and jokes. It's 20 minutes too long--forgivable in view of Burman's affection for his material.
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50Argentinean writer-director Daniel Burman uses a shaky handheld camera and voice-over narration to take us inside Ariel's head, which gets a bit exhausting, even in the more emotionally satisfying second half.