Aloft

Name: Aloft
Genre: Drama
Released: May 22, 2015
Duration: 112 min
Rating: 34
Cast: Cillian Murphy, Jennifer Connelly, Mélanie Laurent

2015

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Sony Pictures Classics | Release Date: May 22, 2015 | R

Starring: Cillian Murphy, Jennifer Connelly, Mélanie Laurent

Summary: As we follow a mother (Jennifer Connelly) and her son (Cillian Murphy), we delve into a past marred by an accident that tears them apart. She will become a renowned artist and healer, and he will grow into his own and a peculiar falconer who bears the marks of a double absence. In the present, a young journalist (Mélanie Laurent) will bringAs we follow a mother (Jennifer Connelly) and her son (Cillian Murphy), we delve into a past marred by an accident that tears them apart. She will become a renowned artist and healer, and he will grow into his own and a peculiar falconer who bears the marks of a double absence. In the present, a young journalist (Mélanie Laurent) will bring about an encounter between the two that puts the very meaning of life and art into question, so that we may contemplate the possibility of living life to its fullest, despite the uncertainties littering our paths. [Sony Pictures Classics]… Expand

Director: Claudia Llosa

Genre(s): Drama

Rating: R

Runtime: 112 min

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Bilge Ebiri

May 22, 2015

I found myself often enraptured by this sad little story. Its weird narrative of faith healing serves as an intriguing diversion from the real matter at hand — the notion that grace lies in the search for help, rather than the finding of it. Read full review

Michael O'Sullivan

Jun 4, 2015

The characters in Aloft seem to float over their strong passions, like birds riding on columns of air, without ever alighting. I kept waiting for the sharp sting of a talon to take hold of my heart, but it never came. Read full review

Marc Mohan

Jul 3, 2015

Aloft reminded me of the work of another Latin American filmmaker, Alejandro González Iñárritu, who made somber, constipated dramas such as "Babel" and "Biutiful" before loosening up and conjuring the lunatic profundity of "Birdman." Llosa has the intelligence and directing chops — Aloft looks fantastic — to do wonders, but she should take a cue from him and warm up by just chilling out. Read full review

Stephen Dalton

Apr 21, 2015

Strip away its gorgeous wintry landscapes and we are left with a symphony of ponderous New Age mumbo-jumbo masquerading as philosophical wisdom. Read full review

Movie Nation Roger Moore

May 20, 2015

The falcon metaphor is clumsy and ill-defined, and Aloft is never much more than a lovely, dull cheat. Read full review

A.A. Dowd

May 20, 2015

What’s really been withheld, in this dreary drag of a movie, is a reason to care. Read full review

Daniel Green

Apr 21, 2015

Llosa shoots for the stars with her oblique pseudo-think piece, but unfortunately ends up dragging her latest offering down to the bottom of the coldest, darkest abyss of cod spirituality imaginable. Read full review

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