Clandestine Childhood
Film Movement | Release Date: January 11, 2013 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
55
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Mixed or average reviews based on 9 Critic Reviews
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2
Mixed:
7
Negative:
0
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Critic scorePublicationBy date
75
New York PostV.A. MusettoJan 10, 2013
Clandestine Childhood is the impressive first feature by Argentine director Benjamín Avila. Read full review
70
Village VoiceAlan ScherstuhlJan 8, 2013
A charming, involving first feature, Clandestine Childhood muscles its familiar coming-of-age material into something more vibrant and urgent than the usual. Read full review
60
New York Daily NewsElizabeth WeitzmanJan 10, 2013
Avila has a tough task, visualizing violent and complicated events through a child's eyes. The calmer scenes are staged in staid and somewhat clunky fashion, but the graphic animation depicting the worst moments is starkly effective. Read full review
60
Time OutDavid FearJan 9, 2013
If such outré flourishes don't fully lift the story past the limitations of innocence-lost storytelling, they do suggest Ávila is an artist worth keeping an eye on. Read full review
50
Los Angeles TimesMarc OlsenFeb 7, 2013
Clandestine Childhood is a sincere effort but also rather sincerely a meager one too. Read full review
50
The New York TimesManohla DargisJan 10, 2013
When a filmmaker proves as reluctant as Mr. Ávila to speak up about the past, to engage with its full complexity, it can be hard to hear what he's saying. Read full review
50
The Hollywood ReporterNeil YoungJan 6, 2013
As is often the case with directors who adapt their own life-histories, there's the sense that a little too close to his material. Read full review
50
VarietyJay WeissbergJan 6, 2013
Designed to highlight the uneasy coexistence between everyday childhood experiences and the intense pressures of living with parents secretly fighting the junta, the picture has strong moments, but is bogged down by a script that regurgitates standard-issue ideas without finding anything interesting to say. Read full review
50
Slant MagazineEd GonzalezJan 4, 2013
Benjamín Ávila structures the film as a series of precious moments, remembrances of a difficult year when the politics of patria and family got in the way of his puppy love. Read full review
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