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  • 2021
  • Shout! Factory
  • 1 h 31 m
  • 2021
  • Shout! Factory
  • 1 h 31 m

Summary When Adam’s (Mark Duplass) husband surprises him with weekly Spanish lessons, he’s unsure about where or how this new element will fit into his already structured life. But when tragedy strikes, his Spanish teacher, Cariño (Natalie Morales), becomes a lifeline he didn’t know he needed. Adam develops an unexpected and complicated emotiona...

Directed By: Natalie Morales

Written By: Mark Duplass, Natalie Morales

  • 2021
  • Shout! Factory
  • 1 h 31 m
  • 2021
  • Shout! Factory
  • 1 h 31 m

Language Lessons

Metascore Generally Favorable Based on 19 Critic Reviews
68
User Score Generally Favorable Based on 7 User Ratings
7.7
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Summary When Adam’s (Mark Duplass) husband surprises him with weekly Spanish lessons, he’s unsure about where or how this new element will fit into his already structured life. But when tragedy strikes, his Spanish teacher, Cariño (Natalie Morales), becomes a lifeline he didn’t know he needed. Adam develops an unexpected and complicated emotiona...

Directed By: Natalie Morales

Written By: Mark Duplass, Natalie Morales

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Metascore
Generally Favorable Based on 19 Critic Reviews
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21% Mixed
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0% Negative
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Generally Favorable Based on 19 Critic Reviews
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79% Positive
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21% Mixed
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90
Mar 30, 2021
Touching, important, and surprisingly inspiring, this movie is a testament to the power of dialect and how it shapes our worldview and fuses and unites us. Willingness to dive in deep past surface level schisms broadens the range of our accepted capabilities and ambitions. Morales may be working with bare bones in her first feature, but she manages to say a lot with a little.
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80
Sep 7, 2021
As a performer, Morales is laughably smart, sympathetic, and engaging, and what’s so clever about Language Lessons is the deployment of that allure.
By Anthony Lane FULL REVIEW
78
Sep 9, 2021
The film gets heavy-handed about its premise sometimes, exaggerating the online-ness of it all with artificial glitches and voice modulations, but beyond that, Language Lessons is gorgeously, uncomfortably real.
By Selome Hailu FULL REVIEW
75
Sep 8, 2021
Even in the film’s third act lurch into sheer melodrama, with brittle conversations carried out on eggshells, Morales and Duplass are wholly immersed in character. The twists are believable because they’re totally credible in their roles.
By Roger Moore FULL REVIEW
70
Mar 3, 2021
Films explicitly about the formation of friendships are rare, and Morales and Duplass have fashioned rather a perceptive one, adapting the push-pull dynamics of a romantic comedy to more delicate psychological terrain.
By Guy Lodge FULL REVIEW
58
Mar 17, 2021
Unfortunately, Zoom movies do not really benefit anyone, Morales or otherwise (but hopefully this means, she gets another opportunity to do it for “real” out in the world). Duplass’ Spanish is good (a nice plus), and the movie’s intentions are in the right place; it’s warm, warm-hearted, and even mildly bittersweet, but in short, no more Zoom movies, please, and thanks.
By Rodrigo Perez FULL REVIEW
50
Mar 1, 2021
Had the film trusted its self-imposed minimalism a little more, it might have been a lot more successful as a character study.
By David Robb FULL REVIEW

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Production Company Duplass Brothers Productions
Release Date Sep 10, 2021
Duration 1 h 31 m
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Tagline Get lost in translation.
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Awards

Frameline San Francisco International LGBTQ Film Festival
• 1 Win & 2 Nominations
Imagen Foundation Awards
• 2 Nominations
SXSW Film Festival
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination

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