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- 2016
- PG-13
- Outsider Pictures
- 1 h 26 m
- 2016
- PG-13
- Outsider Pictures
- 1 h 26 m
Summary Ten years after a tsunami destroyed a small-town elementary school with all the children inside, a young man builds a mysterious structure out of the school's remains, setting the town aflame with passions long forgotten.
Directed By: Julio Quintana
Written By: Julio Quintana
- 2016
- PG-13
- Outsider Pictures
- 1 h 26 m
- 2016
- PG-13
- Outsider Pictures
- 1 h 26 m
The Vessel
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Summary Ten years after a tsunami destroyed a small-town elementary school with all the children inside, a young man builds a mysterious structure out of the school's remains, setting the town aflame with passions long forgotten.
Directed By: Julio Quintana
Written By: Julio Quintana
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 8 Critic Reviews
67
75% Positive
6 Reviews
6 Reviews
25% Mixed
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0% Negative
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As powerfully felt and gorgeously realized as anything one may see on screen this year.
Quintana's emphasis on Jungian dream logic gives his otherwise spartan parable a compelling mythic dimension. The Vessel may bring Malick to mind, but it also feels like a major work by an exciting new talent.
The Vessel speaks eloquently. It’s a testament to the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things unseen.
It’s a strange brew: stark yet beautiful, urgent yet dreamlike.
Cuban-American writer-director Julio Quintana’s feature debut has an understated formal loveliness that helps offset its more heavy-handed allegorical inclinations.
Filmed in a gorgeous, dreamlike style and Infused with heavy doses of mysticism and allegory, The Vessel is an impressive effort that loses some of its impact, however, for being so derivative.
Quintana brings a stunning visual flair to his film, and Sheen has a fine moment when he ponders the thin line between miracles and tragedies. But we keep waiting for the film to wash over us, and it never quite does.
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