No Home Movie
Icarus Films | Release Date: April 1, 2016 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
81
METASCORE
Universal acclaim based on 10 Critic Reviews
Positive:
7
Mixed:
3
Negative:
0
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Critic scorePublicationBy date
100
Boston GlobePeter KeoughMay 19, 2016
The rest of the film consists mostly of Akerman talking with her mother, blithely and lovingly, about everyday ephemera and about the past (Natalia was a survivor of Auschwitz), both via Skype and at her mother’s genteel home in Brussels. Read full review
100
Los Angeles TimesSheri LindenApr 24, 2016
With its focus on domestic interiors (and interior lives), the movie doesn't simply recall Akerman's past efforts; it reveals their roots. Read full review
91
The Film StageEthan VestbyMay 17, 2016
Removed from anything resembling ostentatious formalism, it fits into what’s typically referred to by cinephiles as a “late master” period, in which the auteur has dropped all pretenses and adapted a full-on laid-back, emotionally direct directorial hand. Read full review
90
Time Out LondonTom HuddlestonJun 20, 2016
The word "personal" is bandied around a lot in film reviews, but it’s hard to think of a work that better fits the description than avant-garde icon Chantal Akerman’s intimate swansong No Home Movie. Read full review
90
The New York TimesManohla DargisMar 31, 2016
If you let it, No Home Movie invites you in first with its intimacy and then its deep feeling. Read full review
88
Slant MagazineClayton DillardJan 4, 2016
By refusing to finitely define Natalia, or reduce her life to a series of biographical details, Akerman elides eulogizing of any sort, dignifying Natalia without personifying her as an idea made flesh. Read full review
70
VarietyPeter DebrugeJan 4, 2016
In its own highbrow way, the formally demanding and impossibly intimate video essay serves as an elegy to that sense of home that disappeared with the woman who, as far as the film is concerned, seems forever confined to her own bourgeois apartment. Read full review
60
CineVueBen NicholsonJan 4, 2016
It's impossible not to be sucked into, but it's equally impossible not to imagine how much more significant No Home Movie might have been. Read full review
60
The Hollywood ReporterBoyd van HoeijJan 4, 2016
Since from her other features it is clear she's an uncompromising director, it should perhaps come as no surprise that this film is as unapologetically personal and self-absorbed as it is, making no attempt to draw in viewers perhaps unfamiliar with the filmmaker. Read full review
58
The A.V. ClubIgnatiy VishnevetskyMar 29, 2016
Though No Home Movie is a very personal work by someone who was always a deeply personal artist, it’s hard to tune into. It contains a lot of Akerman, but very little of her art, and that seems intentional. Read full review
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