My Darling Supermarket

Name: My Darling Supermarket
Genre: Documentary
Released: February 24, 2021
Duration: 80 min
Rating: 59

2021

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Cinema Tropical | Release Date (Streaming): February 24, 2021 | Not Rated

Summary: In the midst of executing extremely repetitive tasks, workers of a supermarket find space to express their doubts and affections, their fears and unlikely dreams. Humor, drama, mystery, romance and quantum physics coexist alongside milk cartons, meat cuts, bar codes and security cameras. Steeped in the confined space of a supermarket, theseIn the midst of executing extremely repetitive tasks, workers of a supermarket find space to express their doubts and affections, their fears and unlikely dreams. Humor, drama, mystery, romance and quantum physics coexist alongside milk cartons, meat cuts, bar codes and security cameras. Steeped in the confined space of a supermarket, these workers don't allow their routine to hijack their spirit.… Expand

Director: Tali Yankelevich

Genre(s): Documentary

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 80 min

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Carlos Aguilar

Mar 1, 2021

In this existentialist delight, whimsical and profound, the mundane gains new enlightenment. Read full review

Diego Semerene

Feb 22, 2021

If the world outside the Supermercado Veran is rife with poverty and crime, we wouldn’t know it from inside this little cocoon. Read full review

Beatrice Loayza

Feb 25, 2021

Better late than never, the film’s spiritual thrust becomes clear by the third act. The stark symmetry of the shelved merchandise and the eerily dissonant score assumes an otherworldly, ritualistic power when our subjects begin musing on faith and the nature of existence. Read full review

Josh Kupecki

Mar 11, 2021

It is difficult to see My Darling Supermarket for the whimsical anthropological oddity it so desperately strives to be. Read full review

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Brent_Marchant

Mar 11, 2021

This quirky documentary about the lives and outlooks of employees at a Brazilian supermarket examines their unexpectedly profound insights about life and existence, views that they freely share with co-workers, customers and the film crew during their daily work routines. As intriguing asThis quirky documentary about the lives and outlooks of employees at a Brazilian supermarket examines their unexpectedly profound insights about life and existence, views that they freely share with co-workers, customers and the film crew during their daily work routines. As intriguing as those ideas are, though, they run their course rather quickly and begin to stretch the credibility of the narrative somewhat, especially given the number of employees holding such perspectives and their eagerness to share them. And, considering that much of the remainder of this release consists of lengthy depictions of routine tasks, like stocking shelves and baking bread, the content becomes rather mundane and redundant after a while, no matter how artfully these activities are filmed. Director Tali Yankelevich's off-beat documentary demonstrates that even ordinary subjects can generate some unexpected interest, but it also shows that it only goes so far before the juice runs out (and I'm not talking the kind found in Aisle 6).… Expand

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