SummaryWhen her parents die in a tragic car accident, adolescent Bianca's universe is suspended. Entrusted with the care of her younger brother, Tomas, she struggles to hold it together. Life is further complicated when Tomas' gym-rat friends invite themselves to stay indefinitely. Using Bianca as a lure for a heist they've concocted, they convince her ... Read More
Directed By:Alicia Scherson
Written By:Roberto Bolaño, Alicia Scherson
Il Futuro
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80
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Metascore
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89% Positive
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Sep 5, 2013
90
Ms. Scherson’s style — backed wholeheartedly by the cool cinematography of Ricardo de Angelis — may value mood over information, but it’s the perfect vehicle for a portrait of two damaged souls grasping for a security they no longer possess.
Sep 3, 2013
90
Scherson, adapting Roberto Bolaño's novel, incorporates surrealistic, hyper-expressive visual techniques, resulting in a film that is excitingly unclassifiable.
Oct 24, 2013
80
The atmospheric heft of Il Futuro is invariably more bracing than oppressive, and in the complexly stoic Martelli and masterfully craggy, haunted Hauer, an alluringly opaque pas de deux of loss and uncertainty is wonderfully realized.
Oct 23, 2013
80
Il Futuro is a playful, soulful movie, affecting because it’s populated by lost children who can somehow sense they’re in a movie, and that in a movie, the only future is The End.
Sep 3, 2013
80
Even though mood trumps character psychology, the entire cast provides mesmerizing, evocative performances.
Sep 3, 2013
70
Thoughtful and less sensationalistic than its premise might suggest, it's made for arthouses and offers a fine showcase for costar Rutger Hauer.
Sep 3, 2013
50
A counterproductively "literary" film with no satisfying payoffs, Rutger Hauer's blind recluse notwithstanding.
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Jan 30, 2014
10
A wonderfully understated, quiet film where mood and tone are used to illuminate far more than most movies manage with more direct approaches. Absolutely loved this at Sundance. Reminded me how strong an actor Rutger Hauer can be, as he really channels Brando's performance in Last Tango in Paris in a more introverted way. And Manuela Martelli is captivating, both in beauty and in her well delivered emotionally conflicted performance.
Feb 14, 2014
6
It's an unusual, intriguing film but it ends up being too literary for its own good and all those intellectual undertones (the past vs. the future, darkness vs. light) don't amount to much.
Production Company:
- Movimento Film
- Jirafa
- Pandora Films
- La Ventura
- Astronauta Films
- Jaleo Films
- MEDIA Programme of the European Union
- Roma Lazio Film Commission
- Ministero per i Beni e le Attività Culturali (MiBAC)
- Programa Ibermedia
- Junta de Andalucía
- Gobierno de Chile
- Televisión Nacional de Chile (TVN)
- CORFO
- Capital Regions for Cinema (CRC)
- Regione Lazio
Release Date:Sep 6, 2013
Duration:1 h 34 m
Awards
Pedro Sienna Awards
• 6 Nominations
Chileans Altazor Awards
• 3 Nominations
Huelva Latin American Film Festival
• 2 Wins & 2 Nominations
