Spettacolo
Grasshopper Film | Release Date: September 6, 2017 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
76
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Generally favorable reviews based on 8 Critic Reviews
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8
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0
Negative:
0
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90
The Hollywood ReporterSheri LindenSep 6, 2017
The elegiac Spettacolo is in some ways a familiar story, revolving around the universal tug of war between time and tradition. Read full review
80
Los Angeles TimesGary GoldsteinSep 28, 2017
Theater lovers and Italophiles alike should savor the documentary Spettacolo. Read full review
80
Village VoiceBilge EbiriSep 6, 2017
Is this art or is this prophecy? Is there even a difference? Read full review
75
RogerEbert.comNick AllenSep 6, 2017
It is a touching document of seemingly regular people who yearn to keep an artistic tradition alive. Read full review
75
The A.V. ClubVikram MurthiSep 5, 2017
Although Spettacolo is thoughtful and charming throughout, it’s mildly disappointing that the film doesn’t further engage with the self-reflexivity of the annual event itself. Read full review
75
Slant MagazineChristopher GraySep 2, 2017
Though some of Spettacolo's tension is superficial, the stuff of any let’s-put-on-a-show narrative, its latent anxieties are myriad and profoundly resonant. Read full review
70
VarietyDennis HarveySep 6, 2017
Though at its core the film is about a dying way of life, the location and photography here are so beguiling that they semi-perversely encourage just the kind of foreign tourism that factors into that slow death. Read full review
67
The Film StageRyan SwenSep 11, 2017
If Spettacolo has a significant flaw, it is in the somewhat pedestrian and placid manner in which it is constructed. There is the feeling that the directors see the play as a vehicle in order to explore the town as a whole, which does allow for some lovely moments of contemplation but makes the film less focused and motivated as a whole. Read full review
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