Don't let the DVD slick's happy smiling faces fool you; this is no flimsy chick flick, but a hard headed, big hearted expose of contemporary life
Comment
05/23/08
Familia (2005)
89 %
Reviews Counted: 9 Fresh: 8 Rotten:1 Average Rating: 7.2/10
Runtime: 1 hr 42 mins
Genre: Comedies
Reviews
1 - 9 (sorted by date; UK critics are listed first)
Tackles some heavy domestic issues for a sitcom film and does so incisively and intelligently.
07/04/07
A mundane melodrama that drags us along to window shop for some cheap, knock-off dysfunction. . . the women are about as interesting as stale donuts and the lying, cheating men are like the deep fryer's leftover lard drippings.
11/12/06
Pic would play much better as an ironic Altmanesque comedy, since its moments of pure drama are the weakest. Still, this is a largely entertaining feature debut.
07/28/06
Top Critic
Open-ended, inconclusive, heartfelt, unsentimental and curious, it's a movie that respects something too few popular entertainments do these days: our right to stumble our way from one day to the next.
07/28/06
A smart, well-modulated drama from first-time Quebec director Louise Archambault that packs a powerful after-effect.
07/28/06
...a delicate dramedy that engages difficult themes in a way that seems neither forced nor arch.
06/18/06
Steering well clear of soap opera, the film offers a slice of life that women will surely recognize and men would no doubt benefit from seeing.
09/10/05
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