
Directed By:Alejandro Landes
Written By:Mateo Ingouville, Alejandro Landes, Ezequiel Schmoller
Porfirio
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Generally Favorable
67% Positive
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Feb 5, 2013
100
Landes's tone is never salacious or exploitative, nor for that matter pandering or sentimental. This is a sui generis work—warm, sporadically funny, deeply human, and altogether beguiling.
Feb 3, 2013
80
Porfirio's view of physical disability often mesmerizes despite its glacial progress and stingy way with narrative information.
Feb 3, 2013
75
Alejandro Landes's Porfirio is an ugly movie to watch, but it's not without purpose.
Feb 3, 2013
70
The film falls into an interesting intersection between documentary and feature, between reality and fiction.
Feb 7, 2013
60
Vividly depicting the indignities of the flesh, Porfirio offers a harshly sensual portrait of a man imprisoned by paralysis and the callousness of the state.
Feb 5, 2013
60
The whole notion of taking a page out of the Bressonian handbook (nonprofessional performers, a complete lack of emotionalism) lends a spiritual aspect to this antihero’s plight, with neither social neglect nor a battered corpus keeping his soul from transcending the self. Reaping the benefits of such a minimalist methodology, however, requires a high tolerance for Porfirio’s pitiless formalism.
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Production Company:
- Franja Nomo
- Carmelita Films
- El Campo Cine
- Control Z Films
- Atopic films
Release Date:Feb 8, 2013
Duration:1 h 41 m
Awards
Biarritz International Festival of Latin American Cinema
• 2 Wins & 2 Nominations
Cartagena Film Festival
• 1 Win & 2 Nominations
International Film Festival of India
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination




























