Hide Your Smiling Faces

Name: Hide Your Smiling Faces
Genre: Drama
Released: March 28, 2014
Duration: 81 min
Rating: 69

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Tribeca Film | Release Date: March 28, 2014 | Not Rated

Summary: Two brothers come of age through the experience of a friend’s mysterious death. The event ripples under the surface of their town, unsettling the brothers and their friends in a way that they can’t fully understand. Once familiar interactions begin to take on a macabre tone in light of the tragic accident, leading Eric and Tommy to retreatTwo brothers come of age through the experience of a friend’s mysterious death. The event ripples under the surface of their town, unsettling the brothers and their friends in a way that they can’t fully understand. Once familiar interactions begin to take on a macabre tone in light of the tragic accident, leading Eric and Tommy to retreat into their wild surroundings. As the two brothers vocally face the questions they have about mortality, they simultaneously hold their own silent debates within their minds that build into seemingly insurmountable moral peaks.… Expand

Director: Daniel Patrick Carbone

Genre(s): Drama

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 81 min

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The Playlist Rodrigo Perez

Mar 25, 2014

Featuring two exceptional lead performances from these two boys, first rate beauty-in-ugliness photography and an unusually extraordinary command of tone, Carbone’s picture skillfully articulates the inexpressible. Read full review

RogerEbert.com Brian Tallerico

Mar 28, 2014

What elevates Hide Your Smiling Faces is Carbone's gentle, lyrical touch where other filmmakers would have turned the same thematic concerns into melodrama. Read full review

John DeFore

Mar 25, 2014

Carbone's script doesn't tell a story so much as watch the fluctuations in emotional energy here, quietly observing activities both directly and indirectly related to the loss. As a director he's patient but never sluggish, taking time to appreciate the still landscapes his characters move through. Read full review

Tomas Hachard

Mar 28, 2014

Hide Your Smiling Faces is a striking companion piece to "It Felt Like Love," another recent coming-of-age story, this time about two young girls, from a first-time director. Hide Your Smiling Faces is not as dark as "It Felt Like Love," but like last year's "Sun Don't Shine," the films share a strong sense for the sinister, for how flirtations with new experiences, with excitement, carry a nerve-racking risk of disaster. Read full review

Jonathan Kiefer

Mar 25, 2014

Carbone minimizes dialogue and focuses instead on gestural specificity; he makes a useful inventory of boys-will-be-boys behavior — wrestling in fields, poking at scars or dead critters, shutting down on parents — and stages it in tellingly muted vignettes within the ample copses of rural New Jersey. Read full review

The Guardian Leslie Felperin

Oct 26, 2015

Ultimately, it's mostly a mood piece where not much really happens apart from the inciting incident, but as a study of childhood and adolescence (it makes a great companion piece to Richard Linklater's Boyhood) it's ripe with telling details and atmosphere. Read full review

Time Out London Tom Huddleston

Mar 25, 2014

This microbudget indie about a pair of brothers in small-town USA looks great, sports strong performances and doesn’t outstay its welcome. But it’s impossible to shake the feeling that we’ve seen all this before, and better. Read full review

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ugisupriatna

Sep 14, 2014

I think everybody can't enjoy this film because it's slow and soft, but "Hide Your Smiling Faces" serves a meaningful coming-of-age tales and makes it natural as good as the two leading performances. And moreover, the fresh and authentic location fits out the naturalism effort. Maybe youI think everybody can't enjoy this film because it's slow and soft, but "Hide Your Smiling Faces" serves a meaningful coming-of-age tales and makes it natural as good as the two leading performances. And moreover, the fresh and authentic location fits out the naturalism effort. Maybe you have to little bit patient to understand how great this film is.… Expand

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Adamant

May 26, 2014

An ambiguous, grey skied film about death and relationships set in an American countryside. The film has a nice feeling of stillness and melancholy and comes across as a coming-of-age story. Lack of meaningful dialogue meant that it should have compensated with powerful acting or remarkableAn ambiguous, grey skied film about death and relationships set in an American countryside. The film has a nice feeling of stillness and melancholy and comes across as a coming-of-age story. Lack of meaningful dialogue meant that it should have compensated with powerful acting or remarkable style but it didn't. Cinematically it was able to create enough of a mood to serve as a relaxing watch.… Expand

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JLuis_001

Aug 21, 2020

Too introspective for my taste and despite the fact that its duration is quite short, the pace is not an ally. However it's pretty well filmed and personally I never found it boring.

Perhaps for each viewer it will be a different experience due to the apparent lack of meaning in what takesToo introspective for my taste and despite the fact that its duration is quite short, the pace is not an ally. However it's pretty well filmed and personally I never found it boring.

Perhaps for each viewer it will be a different experience due to the apparent lack of meaning in what takes place on the screen, but if you like films that are more contemplative than proactive, perhaps you should give it a chance.… Expand

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