Cicada

Name: Cicada
Genre: Drama, Romance
Released: October 29, 2021
Duration: 96 min
Rating: 66
Cast: Cobie Smulders, David Burtka, Jason Greene, Jazmin Grace Grimaldi, Jo Firestone

2021

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Strand Releasing | Release Date: October 29, 2021 | Not Rated

Starring: Cobie Smulders, David Burtka, Jason Greene, Jazmin Grace Grimaldi, Jo Firestone, Matthew Fifer, Michael Potts, Sandra Bauleo, Scott Adsit, Sheldon D. Brown

Summary: After a string of unsuccessful and awkward encounters with women, Ben goes “back on the dick.” Cicada follows Ben, a young bisexual man, as he comes out to the world and develops an intense relationship with Sam, a man of color struggling with deep wounds of his own. As the summer progresses and their intimacy grows, Ben’s past crawls toAfter a string of unsuccessful and awkward encounters with women, Ben goes “back on the dick.” Cicada follows Ben, a young bisexual man, as he comes out to the world and develops an intense relationship with Sam, a man of color struggling with deep wounds of his own. As the summer progresses and their intimacy grows, Ben’s past crawls to the surface.… Expand

Director: Kieran Mulcare and Matthew Fifer

Genre(s): Drama, Romance

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 96 min

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Donald Clarke

Jan 21, 2022

Though there are some clunking flaws... Cicada has the compact shape of an elegant short story – open-ended, yet not incomplete. Read full review

Gary Goldstein

Nov 4, 2021

The absorbing romantic drama Cicada feels as real as it gets. Read full review

Matthew Anderson

Jan 20, 2022

Told with tenderness and honesty, Cicada is a treatment of trauma that does not judge or preach or take sides, but, in building to its breathless crescendo, goes to show just how much courage it takes to confront the past in order to look to the future. Read full review

Marina Ashioti

Jan 21, 2022

It struggles to find nuance in its storytelling approach. Read full review

Kyle Turner

Oct 29, 2021

Ben and Sam’s blossoming romance does a lot of telling and little showing. While there’s the occasional amusingly idiosyncratic section of dialogue that sounds like a series of stagily poetic non-sequiturs, much of the couple’s bonding feels straightforward and unremarkable. Read full review

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