This beguiling film has the cadences of a fairy tale — prophetic visions, magical coincidences, behavior echoed across the years — but Marcello, who came up through the documentary world, expertly blends the immediate and the airy.

| Dec 9, 2023

Filmed in Super 16mm like its predecessor this sparkles, especially with intimate feeling and pure affection for the craft [filmmaking].

| Jul 11, 2023

Sparkles especially with intimate feeling and pure affection for the craft.

| Jul 10, 2023

It's all over the place, which to some extent I like as opposed to just another straight ahead film.

| Jun 28, 2023

It’s the supple, harmonious sorcery of love and flight Marcello is after with this countryside tale.

| Jun 27, 2023

The movie's stubborn insistence on going where inspiration takes it is fascinating.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jun 9, 2023

One of the attractions of “Scarlet” is that it doesn’t fit obvious categorization, which means that you’re not always sure where it’s headed or why.

| Jun 8, 2023

The film drifts so far into weightless fantasy that it practically dissipates before one’s eyes.

| Oct 5, 2022

A kind of very modern throwback, mixing a certain kind of modern Italian style with the dream of French cinema of old. It’s a bit of a mess, no doubt about that, but a fascinating one.

| May 18, 2022

A loose adaptation of Scarlet Sails, a novel by Soviet author Alexander Grin, Scarlet is a film of many parts. They may not always fit together perfectly, but each one is admirable and enjoyable in its own way.

| May 18, 2022

The pacing... is sometimes languorous to a fault. Still, the characters and images are illustrated with a fierce and breathtaking beauty.

| May 18, 2022

It’s not groundbreaking stuff, but Marcello has a talent for making such material come alive through his inventive direction, whisking us away to a time and place that we experience as if we were actually there.

| May 18, 2022

Smaller, sweeter and more sensitive than Marcello’s earlier work.

| May 18, 2022