Futuro Beach
Strand Releasing | Release Date: February 27, 2015 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
64
METASCORE
Generally favorable reviews based on 11 Critic Reviews
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6
Mixed:
5
Negative:
0
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Critic scorePublicationBy date
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RogerEbert.comGodfrey CheshireFeb 27, 2015
Ultimately, Futuro Beach is a film about displacement and identity, love and its costs. Its considerable satisfactions, though, come mainly from the way the story is told, which spells nothing out, and in fact is so reticent that the viewer is constantly drawn into the creation of meaning. Read full review
80
The GuardianLeslie FelperinOct 25, 2015
It’s an immensely likable movie, impeccably acted and wise about the nature of exile. Read full review
80
VarietyGuy LodgeFeb 26, 2015
Its visual and sonic verve more than compensate for some overworked symbolism. Read full review
80
The New York TimesJeannette CatsoulisFeb 26, 2015
Balancing its abstract storytelling with commanding visuals (by the gifted cinematographer Ali Olcay Gözkaya), Futuro Beach explores liberation and reinvention, the tug of familiarity versus the allure of the foreign. Read full review
80
Village VoiceSteve EricksonFeb 24, 2015
Futuro Beach is as strong on texture as narrative. It's full of sensual images. Read full review
75
San Francisco ChronicleDavid LewisMar 13, 2015
Futuro Beach is part of a welcome wave of European and South American films that center on gay characters, yet deal with universal themes and offer a certain sensibility that would please any art-house enthusiast. Read full review
60
The Hollywood ReporterDavid RooneyFeb 26, 2015
Karim Ainouz has always been more attentive as a filmmaker to the creation of atmospheric and emotional texture than to story or character, and that bias inhibits this visually seductive drama from fully engaging beyond the aesthetic level. Read full review
50
The DissolveMike D'AngeloFeb 24, 2015
The images are gorgeous, but they’re gorgeous in a void; unlike in The Silver Cliff, the intended connection to the people who inhabit them is missing. Possibly Aïnouz let autobiographical impulses lead him astray. Or maybe he’s an avant-garde filmmaker at heart. Read full review
50
Slant MagazineClayton DillardFeb 22, 2015
It masks depleted drama under a progression of long takes, various music cues, and a three-chapter structure that grows successively tedious. Read full review
40
Time Out LondonTrevor JohnstonMay 5, 2015
Futuro Beach is realised with such undeniable visual panache that the sheer beauty of the coastal landscapes or the moody images of urban isolation cast their own spell. But without much emotional connection to the central couple, it’s all a bit academic. Exquisitely lovely, confoundingly dreary. Read full review
40
Los Angeles TimesMartin TsaiApr 16, 2015
If director-co-writer Karim Aïnouz has set out to depict soulless gay lives, he has more than succeeded. Read full review
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