You All Are Captains
Zeitun Films | Release Date: October 19, 2011 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
57
METASCORE
Mixed or average reviews based on 4 Critic Reviews
Positive:
1
Mixed:
3
Negative:
0

Critic Reviews

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63
Slant MagazineAndrew SchenkerOct 17, 2011
Oliver Laxe goes full-on meta by casting himself in the role of a visiting moviemaker who travels to Morocco to shoot footage with disadvantaged children living in a shelter. Read full review
60
Village VoiceKarina LongworthOct 18, 2011
When onscreen Laxe loses control of the film-within-the-film, off-screen Laxe's voice is subsumed into dreamily beautiful footage following a "script" laid out earlier by the kids. Or so it seems - by that point, we've seen enough of Laxe's brilliantly constructed deconstruction of "truth" versus "fiction" to know to question the authorship of every frame. Read full review
60
The New York TimesDavid DeWittOct 18, 2011
I can't say I enjoyed it, but I acknowledge that You All Are Captains has something to express that can't be said except the way it's said, and that way there be art. Read full review
60
Time OutDavid FearOct 18, 2011
We've been here before; you may now yell "Cut!," print it and call the concept a wrap. Read full review
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