Misunderstood

Name: Misunderstood
Genre: Drama
Released: September 25, 2015
Duration: 103 min
Rating: 67

2015

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IFC Films | Release Date: September 25, 2015 | Not Rated

Summary: Rome, 1984. Nine-year-old Aria (Giulia Salerno), a precocious girl, is trying to find her way amidst the unraveling marriage of her temperamental artist parents (played by Charlotte Gainsbourg and Gabriel Garko). Despite the turmoil swirling around her, Aria’s spirit remains irrepressible, buoyed by her vivid imagination and budding talentRome, 1984. Nine-year-old Aria (Giulia Salerno), a precocious girl, is trying to find her way amidst the unraveling marriage of her temperamental artist parents (played by Charlotte Gainsbourg and Gabriel Garko). Despite the turmoil swirling around her, Aria’s spirit remains irrepressible, buoyed by her vivid imagination and budding talent as a writer. [IFC Films]… Expand

Director: Asia Argento

Genre(s): Drama

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 103 min

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RogerEbert.com Peter Sobczynski

Sep 25, 2015

The result is an occasionally strange, occasionally brutal and occasionally lovely work that goes up on the shelf with "The Ocean of Helena Lee" and "Girlhood" as one of the more impressive coming-of-age tales of recent times. Read full review

The Playlist Jessica Kiang

Sep 22, 2015

The respect that the film mostly has for Aria’s personhood, even at such a young age, gives it a keener edge than many other entries in the rather overpopulated coming-of-age genre. Read full review

Michael Nordine

Sep 22, 2015

Both Aria and the film as a whole are very much in their own head, which is a nice place to visit but probably not the healthiest environment to grow up in. Read full review

Deborah Young

Sep 22, 2015

Argento seems to have learned from the experience of her overwrought first features, or maybe from life itself, that there is more to childhood than Gothic horror, and the mischievous moments of being a kid captured in Misunderstood show a filmmaker who is maturing in the direction of audience appeal. Read full review

Manohla Dargis

Sep 24, 2015

A buoyantly funny, sometimes desperately sad film. Read full review

Adam Nayman

Sep 23, 2015

The ostensible boldness of Misunderstood is undermined by the sense that it’s also pandering—that its view of childhood as a bourgeois horror-show is at least as salable on the art-house circuit as it is authentic to its creator’s experiences. Read full review

Elise Nakhnikian

Sep 18, 2015

The film is only slightly dependent on the self-pity that informed Asia Argento's last effort, The Heart Is Deceitful Above All Things, but it feels similarly airless. Read full review

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