Dormant Beauty continues a debate that remains installed in society and one is often difficult to face head-on. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 7/10 | Dec 8, 2023

A tiresome, expository piece of film that only manages to alienate us from the very issue it's trying to get us to consider.

| Aug 30, 2019

An unabashed melodrama, one that obviously wants to have its finger on the pulse of today, yet unafraid of pulling tricks both sincere and comical.

| Original Score: B | Jun 6, 2016

"Dormant Beauty" is well-written, beautifully performed, and nicely made, if a good 15 minutes overlong. But we couldn't help but feel, given how controversial it proved in advance, that it should've been willing to go a little closer to the edge.

| Original Score: B- | Aug 24, 2014

Bellocchio may sometimes shut these characters in their rooms, but his view of them all is as open in mind and spirit as a film can be.

| Jun 25, 2014

It's well acted and gorgeously and tenebrously shot.

| Original Score: B+ | Jun 20, 2014

Despite the awkward narrative structure, the choppy film serves as a welcome showcase for ably understated performances from veteran Toni Servillo and rising talent Alba Rohrwacher, and a coolly burning Isabelle Huppert.

| Jun 12, 2014

The film pits their honest passion against the stylized desperation of the actress' religious theater and the decadent hollowness of Berlusconi's political theater.

| Original Score: A- | Jun 12, 2014

If "Dormant Beauty" does not rank among Mr. Bellocchio's best movies, it nonetheless still occasionally shows him at his best.

| Jun 5, 2014

Unlike most movies that rely on 온라인카지노추천-news reports to drive the story, Dormant Beauty is complex and humane, and never shrinks to mere spectacle.

| Jun 5, 2014

The result is one huge cinematic morass of gloom, largely unleavened by any redeeming humor -- however black -- or true empathy.

| Jun 5, 2014

Though the movie eschews facile sloganeering, few of its characters or narrative threads are able to develop beyond their function as metaphors.

| Original Score: B- | Jun 5, 2014

Like Bellocchio's draggy, overrated Vincere, this movie wants us to believe in its depth, while mostly just skimming the surface.

| Jun 5, 2014

Swift and often compelling, it's also blessedly unbiased.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jun 4, 2014

[A] tough, poignant drama ...

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jun 3, 2014

Don't let this one slip through your fingers.

| Jun 3, 2014

Dormant Beauty always comes back to the difficult decisions that family members have to make for each other, contrasted with the huffiness of outsiders who try to project their own beliefs onto someone else's business.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jun 3, 2014

Itself the object of political wrangling, Beauty has numerous scenes of enormous power, though removing one unnecessary plot strand would allow deeper probing elsewhere.

| Jun 2, 2014

Despite some moments of quirky brilliance and strong performances from Toni Servillo and Alba Rohrwacher, the heart of a 온라인카지노추천 melodrama beats beneath Dormant Beauty's pale arthouse skin

| Jun 2, 2014

With typical intelligence and complexity, director Marco Bellocchio weaves three stories around the politically hot topic of euthanasia, turning a real-life Italian national drama into engrossing narrative for sophisticated audiences.

| Jun 2, 2014