Solas
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  • Summary: When her husband becomes ill and needs an operation, a provincial Spanish woman moves in with her estranged adult daughter in an unfamiliar city.

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  1. Positive: 14 out of 16
  2. Mixed: 2 out of 16
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  1. Los Angeles Times
    Reviewed by: Kevin Thomas
    90
    Alternately heart-wrenching, dismaying, raw and even funny, Solas is ultimately a wonderfully warm and embracing experience.
  2. Village Voice
    Reviewed by: Leslie Camhi
    80
    The fierce rigor of María Galiana's performance keeps this film from ever falling into sentimentality.
  3. L.A. Weekly
    Reviewed by: Ella Taylor
    80
    As a tactfully quiet story of mother-daughter estrangement and psychic rescue, Solas can hardly fail to excite the longing so many of us have to right domestic wrongs.
  4. TV Guide
    Reviewed by: Ken Fox
    60
    The acting is superb.

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  1. AmurabiM.
    6
    call this intimist cinema not escapism. this movie is so intimate that it feels claustrophobic. zambrano´s movie is so splendidly acted than naturalism feels very close. but it feels like copied from another. it feels like a cynic tearjerker despite all its achievements.… Expand

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