SummaryElena Gallenti (Livia De Paolis) is an anthropology graduate student struggling to complete her thesis on modern means of communication. All that changes when she meets her new boyfriend's (Michael Cristofer) teenage kids (Miles Chandler and Diane Guerrero), who are going through their own journeys of self-discovery. Through these relationships a... Read More
Directed By:Livia De Paolis
Written By:Sarah Nerboso, Livia De Paolis
Emoticon
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Metascore
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May 29, 2014
50
While the screenplay by De Paolis and Sarah Nerboso falters in its melodramatic plot elements, its incisive characterizations and well-drawn smaller moments provide some compensation.
May 29, 2014
40
Director-star Livia De Paolis sets out to reassure everybody that the Internet won't destroy all relationships in her agreeable but unnecessary family drama Emoticon ;).
May 28, 2014
40
Despite its slim 79-minute runtime, Emoticon ;) is crammed with a startling number of subplots, which mostly struggle to address some of the large issues they present and subsequently abandon.
May 29, 2014
30
With its underwritten characters (especially Walter) and scenes, it seems like a generic ABC Family plotline melded to a commercial for Facebook, Twitter and Skype.
May 27, 2014
30
Emoticon ;), a vanity project written, directed, starring, and sung by Livia De Paolis, is a grown-up's weird idea of how kids behave.
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Production Company:
- Emoticon
- Tandem Pictures
- The Station
Release Date:May 30, 2014
Duration:1 h 19 m
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Awards
Terra di Siena Film Festival
• 1 Win & 2 Nominations
Gen Art Film Festival
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
