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  • 2018
  • PG-13
  • Netflix
  • 1 h 53 m
  • 2018
  • PG-13
  • Netflix
  • 1 h 53 m
Sunday's Illness

Summary Anabel abandoned her daughter Chiara when she was barely eight years old. Thirty-five years later Chiara returns with a strange request for her mother; she asks to spend ten days together. Anabel sees this trip as a chance to get her daughter back, but she doesn’t know that Chiara has a hidden purpose and she’ll have to face the most imp...

Directed By: Ramón Salazar

Written By: Ramón Salazar

  • 2018
  • PG-13
  • Netflix
  • 1 h 53 m
  • 2018
  • PG-13
  • Netflix
  • 1 h 53 m

Sunday's Illness

Metascore Universal Acclaim Based on 6 Critic Reviews
92
User Score Generally Favorable Based on 5 User Ratings
8.0
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Summary Anabel abandoned her daughter Chiara when she was barely eight years old. Thirty-five years later Chiara returns with a strange request for her mother; she asks to spend ten days together. Anabel sees this trip as a chance to get her daughter back, but she doesn’t know that Chiara has a hidden purpose and she’ll have to face the most imp...

Directed By: Ramón Salazar

Written By: Ramón Salazar

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100
Jun 16, 2018
It’s a powerful look at the durability of parent-child bonds as well as a fascinating psychological thriller about what it takes to heal such a rift when it seems irreparable.
By Eric Kohn FULL REVIEW
100
Jun 14, 2018
With breathtaking elegance and stunning assurance, Ramón Salazar takes a melodramatic chestnut and makes it flower with unexpected emotion in Sunday’s Illness.
By Jay Weissberg FULL REVIEW
100
Jun 14, 2018
Sunday’s Illness doesn’t put a foot wrong.
By Wendy Ide FULL REVIEW
90
Jul 16, 2018
The often-tense mother-daughter dance of recrimination and forgiveness is spectacularly acted.
By Glenn Kenny FULL REVIEW
90
Jun 14, 2018
This story about the reunion, following a 35-year abandonment, of a mother and daughter, marvelously played by Spanish actors Susi Sanchez and Barbara Lennie, respectively, is slow but never ponderous, clear in its outlines but never simplistic, and elegantly crafted without being stifling.
By Jonathan Holland FULL REVIEW
70
Jun 14, 2018
Salazar’s deliberateness of image and tone can sometimes feel like its own archly overemphasized meaning, but it’s never less than an artfully sincere companion to the drama of missing years and reconsidered choices that fortifies Sunday’s Illness.
By Robert Abele FULL REVIEW

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Production Company Institut Català de les Empreses Culturals (ICEC), Instituto de Crédito Oficial (ICO), Instituto de la Cinematografía y de las Artes Audiovisuales (ICAA), Netflix, On Cinema 2017, Televisió de Catalunya (TV3), Televisión Española (TVE), Zeta Cinema
Release Date Jun 15, 2018
Duration 1 h 53 m
Rating PG-13
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Awards

Toulouse Cinespaña
• 2 Wins & 3 Nominations
Feroz Awards, ES
• 3 Nominations
ASECAN
• 3 Nominations

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