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Vivere
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50 out of 100

Mixed or average reviews - based on 6 Critics

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 1 out of 6
  2. Mixed: 5 out of 6
  3. Negative: 0 out of 6
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  1. TV Guide
    Reviewed by: Maitland McDonagh
    75
    The film's resolution is both haunting and satisfying.
  2. Variety
    Reviewed by: Ronnie Scheib
    60
    Piles heavy emotional baggage on a slender story frame. Pic looks ravishing, featuring a nocturnal road trip through a cool kaleidoscopic landscape of shifting colors peopled by three commanding thesps of different generations whose interlocking stories form a cohesive whole.
  3. New York Post
    Reviewed by: V.A. Musetto
    50
    You can't quarrel with the lensing and acting, but the overabundance of coincidences keeps Vivere from reaching its full potential.
  4. Los Angeles Times
    Reviewed by: Carina Chocano
    50
    The wave-like "Rashomon" structure of the story, combined with the steady pace and moody look of Vivere are lulling, but in the end the situation is neither believable nor fantastic enough to be very compelling.
  5. The New York Times
    Reviewed by: Jeannette Catsoulis
    50
    Almost holding things together is the marvelous Ms. Elsner: there's more depth in her weary gaze and disappointed mouth than in any line of dialogue. Not since Bette Davis lit and flicked has smoking been so evocative, or so heartbreaking.
  6. Village Voice
    Reviewed by: Ella Taylor
    40
    I like writer-director Angela Maccarone's ambition, but her technical ingenuity exceeds her grasp of potentially complex emotions, which get stuck in a groove of mawkish self-pity.
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