The Tim Burtonish retro design and the blatant references to silent masterworks don't amount to a style; and even if they did, wouldn't make up for the kitsch story.
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08/01/08
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The Aerial (2007)
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Reviews Counted:10
Fresh:6
Rotten:4
Average Rating:5.8/10
Theatrical Release:16-05-2008
Reviews for The Aerial
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This wonderfully original little film is filled with tacit menace and ominous symbolism; it’s a work of curious and unsettling beauty.
08/01/08
Top CriticA stylishly inventive play on silent-era movies that presses political buttons.
08/01/08
Top CriticThe characterisation is perhaps necessarily formulaic, but that doesn’t make these paper-thin figures any more likeable, and despite its undoubted beauty the film eventually becomes something of a chore.
08/01/08
Top CriticIn a word: Unmissable
05/16/08
Top CriticThis left-field, futuristic film is a tad too indulgent to be a true homage to the silent movie.
05/16/08
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05/15/08
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10/18/08
Top CriticReflexive, allegorical and poetic, La Antena (The Aerial) is a dizzyingly dense piece of cinema, thriving on paradox, and always matching its medium to its message.
03/07/08
otan apofasizei na soy eksigisei to oneiro toy poiiti, esy pithanotata tha 'heis arhisei na blepeis to diko soy
02/03/08
Both less inventive and less substantial than it seems to think it is, this would-be epic suffers from the comparisons it prompts as it references a series of silent classics.
01/16/08
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