Mimosas
Grasshopper Film | Release Date: April 14, 2017 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
64
METASCORE
Generally favorable reviews based on 9 Critic Reviews
Positive:
5
Mixed:
4
Negative:
0
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83
The Film StageEd FranklFeb 24, 2017
It’s a spiritual, ambiguously plotted journey through the Atlas Mountains, and those willing to give in to its mystical embrace and gorgeous visuals should find it a sensual, engrossing watch. Read full review
80
CineVueBen NicholsonFeb 24, 2017
It's a sparse and ravishing meditation on faith. Read full review
75
Slant MagazineClayton DillardApr 10, 2017
Mimosas confounds its surface narrative with intimations of more layered meanings to come through a jockeying of story threads. Read full review
70
Screen DailyJonathan RomneyMay 23, 2016
This is partly a consummate figures-in-a-landscape study, with characters – and their accompanying mules - often merging into the vastness of a varied, but usually profoundly, inhospitable landscape. But the cast makes striking use of non-professionals, and Laxe has an unerring eye for faces that tell a story. Read full review
67
The A.V. ClubIgnatiy VishnevetskyApr 12, 2017
Perhaps Mimosas is nothing more than a high-minded (but very affectionate) paean to naïveté, an incomplete adventure that eschews both sophistication and interpretation. Read full review
60
Total FilmTom BondAug 23, 2017
An intriguing tale of faith under pressure emerges, but it’s too slow and simple to truly convince. Read full review
60
The New York TimesJeannette CatsoulisApr 13, 2017
At best ambiguous and at worst unfathomable, Mimosas, the sophomore feature from the Spanish director Oliver Laxe, merges harsh reality and offbeat mysticism into a reflection on the tug between our higher powers and baser instincts. Read full review
60
The Hollywood ReporterLeslie FelperinMay 23, 2016
With such an elliptical tease of a plot, which jumps back and forth temporally disdaining explication, some may feel a little of this travelogue goes a long way. Read full review
60
VarietyBen KenigsbergMay 23, 2016
Those familiar with the ethnographic works of Ben Rivers (who gets a thanks in the closing credits) and the films of Argentine director Lisandro Alonso (“Jauja”) will find much to admire in the movie’s combination of spiritual musings and stunning landscapes. Read full review
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