Vivere
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- Synopsis
- With her gentle and understated drama Vivere, German director Angelina Maccarone weaves the tale of Francesca, a small-town woman who embarks on a fateful trip to the port city of Rotterdam one Christmas Eve....
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- Director(s)
- Angelina Maccarone
- Distributor(s)
- Regent Releasing
- MPAA Rating
- R
- Runtime
- 97 min.
Critic Reviews
Piles heavy emotional baggage on a slender story frame. Pic looks ravishing, featuring a nocturnal road trip through a cool kaleidoscopic landscape of shifting colors peopled by three commanding thesps of different generations whose interlocking stories form a cohesive whole.Read the full review
The wave-like "Rashomon" structure of the story, combined with the steady pace and moody look of Vivere are lulling, but in the end the situation is neither believable nor fantastic enough to be very compelling.Read the full review
Almost holding things together is the marvelous Ms. Elsner: there?s more depth in her weary gaze and disappointed mouth than in any line of dialogue. Not since Bette Davis lit and flicked has smoking been so evocative, or so heartbreaking.Read the full review
