The Four Times (Le Quattro Volte)
Lorber Films | Release Date: March 30, 2011 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
80
METASCORE
Generally favorable reviews based on 16 Critic Reviews
Positive:
13
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3
Negative:
0
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Critic scorePublicationBy date
100
Los Angeles TimesKevin ThomasApr 14, 2011
In only his second feature, Frammartino has found a fresh and ravishingly poetic and beautiful way to explore the relationship between the spirit, man and nature. Read full review
100
Boston GlobeTy BurrApr 14, 2011
There's humor in "Le Quattro Volte," and then a deep, abiding sadness, and beyond that a larger, more graceful comedy that extends to the horizons. Read full review
100
Village VoiceJ. HobermanMar 29, 2011
Grave, beautiful, austerely comic, and casually metempsychotic, Michelangelo Frammartino's Le Quattro Volte is one of the wiggiest nature documentaries-or almost-documentaries-ever made. Read full review
91
IndieWireEric KohnMar 29, 2011
Frammartino keeps the material engaging simply by aiming the camera at his subjects and letting the material organically emerge-rather than enforcing the supernatural element with overstatement. Read full review
90
The New York TimesA.O. ScottMar 29, 2011
There is something startling, even shocking, about the angle of vision Mr. Frammartino imposes by juxtaposing apparently disparate elements and lingering on what seem at first to be insignificant details. You have never seen anything like this movie, even though what it shows you has been there all along. Read full review
88
Chicago Sun-TimesRoger EbertJun 15, 2011
Here is a film that invites philosophical musing. Made without dialogue and often in long shots, it regards the four stages of existence in a remote Italian village. Read full review
83
The A.V. ClubKeith PhippsMar 31, 2011
It's a remote location, but Frammartino's canny eye, wry humor, and careful sense of rhythm make it feel like the best possible spot to observe the workings of the world, from ashes to ashes. Read full review
80
EmpireDavid ParkinsonMay 23, 2011
A beautiful but slow moving celebration of life, stunningly photographed. Read full review
78
Austin ChronicleMarjorie BaumgartenJul 20, 2011
It is easy to describe what occurs in Le Quattro Volte; less easy, however, to explain it. Calculatedly meditative yet casually metaphysical, Le Quattro Volte (The Four Times in English) is austere, funny, beautiful, and transfixing. Read full review
75
St. Louis Post-DispatchJoe WilliamsJul 15, 2011
If you require a plot, look elsewhere. Read full review
75
San Francisco ChronicleWalter AddiegoJun 9, 2011
Le Quattro Volte may sound like art-house tedium, but in fact it's a movie of grave beauty, serene pace and surprising humor. Read full review
70
The Hollywood ReporterNatasha SenjanovicMar 27, 2011
It's tempting to call The Four Times documentary-like, except that documentaries usually explain what it is we are seeing. Instead, Frammartino uses his background as a video installation artist to create something that one could just as easily come across playing at an art gallery. Read full review
70
VarietyJay WeissbergMar 27, 2011
Very kid-friendly, the wordless pic could strike some as an overly-intellectualized attempt to fetishize remnant semi-pagan traditions in a picturesque corner of Italy's Calabria province. Read full review
60
Boxoffice MagazineVadim RizovMar 27, 2011
Alternately beguiling and actively irritating, Frammartino's second feature is too uneven to recommend whole-heartedly, but contains so many individually fascinating movies that attention should be paid. Read full review
50
Chicago ReaderJ.R. JonesJun 16, 2011
Like the incessant ringing of cowbells in the first two segments, the film may either hypnotize you or drive you stark staring mad. Read full review
40
Time OutKeith UhlichMar 29, 2011
The director races far too quickly to get to his ashes-to-ashes, dust-to-dust punch line. This is the film of a pretender, not a believer. Read full review
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