Too Late to Die Young
Kimstim Films | Release Date: May 31, 2019 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
80
METASCORE
Generally favorable reviews based on 15 Critic Reviews
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100
Arizona RepublicKerry LengelJul 13, 2019
In Too Late to Die Young, Chilean writer-director Dominga Sotomayor excavates details from her own memory to unlock a hidden bonus level of starkly original cinematic beauty. This spare coming-of-age story is a slow-burning stunner, despite hardly having a plot at all. Read full review
91
The Film StageLeonardo GoiSep 5, 2018
Perceptively, the mix of hope and anxieties permeating the commune serves as an allegory that stretches far beyond the cordillera. Political commentaries abound all throughout Too Late to Die Young, but Sotomayor parcels them out with jaw-dropping subtlety. Read full review
90
Los Angeles TimesJustin ChangJun 6, 2019
Even as it borrows a few beats and riffs from the coming-of-age drama (and from Sotomayor’s own childhood), Too Late to Die Young is marked by a fascinating open-endedness, a strange and intriguing reticence as to who and what it’s really about. Read full review
90
The Hollywood ReporterBoyd van HoeijSep 5, 2018
Though more an atmospheric and sensorial experience than strictly a narrative one, this languorous and handsomely produced (by Call Me by Your Name producer Rodrigo Teixeira) feature is a lovingly textured addition to the coming-of-age genre. Read full review
83
The A.V. ClubMike D'AngeloMay 29, 2019
For better and worse (mostly better), Too Late To Die Young is a mood movie, situated on an emotional precipice. Read full review
83
IndieWireEric KohnSep 5, 2018
It’s an impressive illustration of a director in command of the medium, but more than that, points to the potential in whatever she does next. Read full review
80
CineVueSucheta ChakrabortyMay 30, 2019
Too Late to Die Young is Castillo’s remarkable endeavour to relive memories, sensations and lived moments from a time and place she has long since left behind. Read full review
80
Screen DailyAllan HunterSep 5, 2018
A saga of complicated relationships, longings and heartbreak sometimes strains to fully develop all its disparate elements. Yet this is still an ambitious feat of storytelling delivered with a sensitivity to mood and emotion. Read full review
80
VarietyJay WeissbergSep 5, 2018
While the film is perhaps longer than necessary, and the adult characters could use some fleshing out, this is a satisfying sensorial work. Read full review
78
Austin ChronicleSteve DavisJun 12, 2019
Perhaps the bigger canvas here is a native daughter’s tribute to the resiliency of the people of her homeland. It’s no coincidence that the mascot chicken in this rustic Utopia is named Survive. Read full review
75
RogerEbert.comMonica CastilloMay 31, 2019
Hernández is the standout actor in the troupe of professionals and non-actors. Read full review
75
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)Barry HertzSep 12, 2018
The director simply trusts that his performers and sun-dappled visuals will carry the film forward. And he’s right – there’s little narrative propulsion to Too Late to Die Young, yet it hums along with a vibrant humanity all the same. Read full review
70
The New York TimesA.O. ScottMay 30, 2019
Too Late to Die Young is above all an achievement in mood and implication. Sotomayor has a way of structuring scenes and composing images that makes everything perfectly clear but not obvious. Read full review
63
Slant MagazineCarson LundMay 31, 2019
The experience of watching Dominga Sotomayor’s film is not unlike entering a stranger’s dream without an anchor. Read full review
60
The GuardianPhil HoadMay 23, 2019
Castillo’s talent for spiritually attuned atmospherics could be her USP among Chile’s current crop of directors with idiosyncratic slants on their country’s recent past. Read full review
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