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Solas
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Generally favorable reviews
Based on 16 critic reviews
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Based on 2 votes
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Movie Info
Genre(s): Drama
Written by: Benito Zambrano
Directed by: Benito Zambrano
Release Date:
Theatrical: September 8, 2000
DVD: August 12, 2003
Running Time: 98 minutes, Color
Origin: Spain
Summary
RATING: Not rated
Starring Ana Fernández, María Galiana, Paco De Osca, and Carlos Álvarez-Novoa
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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What The Critics Said
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Los Angeles Times Kevin Thomas
Alternately heart-wrenching, dismaying, raw and even funny, Solas is ultimately a wonderfully warm and embracing experience.
Read Full Review >The New York Times Stephen Holden
Galiana's quietly monumental performance is one for the ages.
Read Full Review >Chicago Tribune Michael Wilmington
A beautifully acted and deeply compassionate study of ordinary people coping with the vicissitudes of life.
Read Full Review >Baltimore Sun Chris Kaltenbach
Unsparing and uplifting - a wickedly difficult combination to pull off, but one that gives the film an emotional weight that's impossible to dismiss.
Read Full Review >New York Daily News Jami Bernard
A simple story that resonates deeply, largely thanks to the actors' ability to invest it with inner life.
Read Full Review >LA Weekly Ella Taylor
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.
Read Full Review >Village Voice Leslie Camhi
The fierce rigor of María Galiana's performance keeps this film from ever falling into sentimentality.
Read Full Review >Seattle Post-Intelligencer Sean Axmaker
Zambrano shows an impressive sensitivity toward his actors and their characters and never allows hopelessness to quash hope in this lovely film.
Read Full Review >Chicago Reader Lisa Alspector
Despite a melodramatic score that at times seems almost facetious, the movie's tone is sober and sincere, its unlikely ending persuasive.
Read Full Review >Entertainment Weekly Owen Gleiberman
After all of its sadness, a tender redemptive glow.
Read Full Review >New York Post Jonathan Foreman
A lovely, intelligent film from Spain about recognizable human beings with real-life problems.
Read Full Review >Austin Chronicle Marc Savlov
Fernandez is excellent as the maladjusted daughter, but the film's heart and soul is embodied in Galina's noble, understated performance.
Read Full Review >What Our Users Said
The average user rating for this movie is 7.5 (out of 10) based on 2 User Votes
Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.
Amurabi M. gave it a6:
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.
