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  • 2016
  • Not Rated
  • Outsider Pictures
  • 1 h 37 m
  • 2016
  • Not Rated
  • Outsider Pictures
  • 1 h 37 m

Summary Alfonso is an old farmer who has returned home to tend to his son, who is gravely ill. He rediscovers his old house, where the woman who was once his wife still lives, with his daughter-in-law and grandson. The landscape that awaits him resembles a wasteland. Vast sugar cane plantations surround the house, producing perpetual clouds of a...

Directed By: César Augusto Acevedo

Written By: César Augusto Acevedo

  • 2016
  • Not Rated
  • Outsider Pictures
  • 1 h 37 m
  • 2016
  • Not Rated
  • Outsider Pictures
  • 1 h 37 m

Land and Shade

Metascore Generally Favorable Based on 11 Critic Reviews
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Summary Alfonso is an old farmer who has returned home to tend to his son, who is gravely ill. He rediscovers his old house, where the woman who was once his wife still lives, with his daughter-in-law and grandson. The landscape that awaits him resembles a wasteland. Vast sugar cane plantations surround the house, producing perpetual clouds of a...

Directed By: César Augusto Acevedo

Written By: César Augusto Acevedo

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Generally Favorable Based on 11 Critic Reviews
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Generally Favorable Based on 11 Critic Reviews
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91
Jun 22, 2016
It’s a film that’s feels nearly otherworldly in its isolation.
By Michael Snydel FULL REVIEW
88
Jun 16, 2016
The landscape seems to push the characters away at the same time that it anchors them into place, suggesting that elsewhere is a promise that only dreams can keep.
By Diego Semerene FULL REVIEW
80
Jun 4, 2015
Arcevedo is certainly as preoccupied with image as he is content and it is perhaps the individual frames and tableaux which linger on past this resolutely-downbeat, emblematic story.
By Fionnuala Halligan FULL REVIEW
75
Jun 15, 2016
Land And Shade is a slow-paced art-film, where the static shots are held at length and the characters pause between lines of dialogue, to give viewers plenty of chances to register the mood, look, feel, and significance of everything Acevedo shows.
By Noel Murray FULL REVIEW
70
May 26, 2015
Acevedo deserves credit for crafting something so audacious – along with the photography, the sound design by Felipe Rayo is also boldly conceived – though there are moments when the style really dominates the subject matter, in a film that’s a pleasure to watch but not always one to follow.
By Jordan Mintzer FULL REVIEW
70
May 26, 2015
While mirthless in the extreme, Cesar Acevedo’s deliberately paced and distant-feeling debut works its way under audiences’ skin, weaving a haunting allegory through painterly compositions.
By Peter Debruge FULL REVIEW
60
Jun 16, 2016
In Land and Shade, the setting holds more interest than the plot: a fable-like, elemental story that sketches its characters too faintly to develop much power.
By Ben Kenigsberg FULL REVIEW

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Production Company Burning Blue, Ciné-Sud Promotion, Preta Portê Filmes, Rampante, Topkapi Films
Release Date Jun 17, 2016
Duration 1 h 37 m
Rating Not Rated
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Website https://www.facebook.com/latierraylasombra?fref=ts
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Awards

Cannes Film Festival
• 4 Wins & 5 Nominations
Thessaloniki Film Festival
• 3 Wins & 4 Nominations
Premios Macondo
• 2 Wins & 4 Nominations

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