This is a cinematic autobiography that feels both grounded in personal history and expanded upon and imagined.

| Dec 12, 2023

This stunning debut from Catalan director Carla Simón is a deeply affecting immersion into the unexpected ways grief colors a young life.

| Original Score: 90/100 | Jul 26, 2023

This is a painful and powerful film about grief, fitting in, and family.

| Oct 12, 2021

In her acting debut as Frida, ten year old Laia Artigas captures your heart.

| Oct 12, 2021

Brava to Carla Simón who, with her feature debut, crafts a beautifully delicate and sensitive portrait of a child's grief as inarticulate, incoherent torment.

| Oct 12, 2021

The intimacy of the story-telling here is deeply moving. Director Carla Simon created space for performances of truly extraordinary naturalism from everyone in the cast, especially the two young girls.

| Oct 12, 2021

Simon delivers a tender, empathetic film about the challenges of being a young child who's completely at the mercy of adults.

| Oct 12, 2021

[A]n incredibly touching and dramatically moving coming-of-age tale that utilises phenomenal performances and downplayed direction to deliver maximum impact.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Feb 6, 2021

the most immediate reference is Cría Cuervos . And the thing is that Carla Simón made Laia Artigas his own Ana Torrent, through the weight of a secret, a pain and a resentment encapsulated in the black cell of his eyes. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 8.5/10 | Jan 9, 2021

Throughout the film's 96 minutes, Simón approaches the material from a perspective that is entirely from Frida's perspective, but her viewpoint remains equally retrospective.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jul 24, 2020

Carefully put together and wonderfully acted, Summer 1993 is a beautiful film not only to reflect on the fearful period of 90s and the generation it affected but also highlights unconditional love of the tight-knit family overcoming tragedy.

| Jul 17, 2020

Its magic and sensibility are conquering spectators from all over the world. [Full Review in Spanish]

| Aug 14, 2019

Whisked by night from her Barcelona home to a cosy country house, six-year-old Frida is a downcast observer of her unwanted new world. Her parents are dead and she must now find a new way forward with her uncle and his family.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jul 7, 2019

A naturally beautiful and uninhibited work, more a filmed photo album of precious memories than a story with a beginning, middle or end.

| Original Score: 3/5 | May 17, 2019

Its depiction of Frida as being at the mercy of powerful emotions she cannot yet comprehend, and how childhood itself is often bittersweet, is universal and timeless.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Mar 28, 2019

Summer 1993 is such a delicately crafted and deeply moving memoir it is astonishing that this film is Simon Pipó's debut.

| Mar 19, 2019

Featuring fantastic performances from its cast, sensitive and illuminating direction from director Carla Simon and an assuredly humanistic look on the mindset of a child, Summer 1993 is one of 2018's best films.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Jan 18, 2019

Rather, Summer 1993 is less family melodrama and more a love letter to childhood and to the parents who shape it.

| Original Score: 7.5/10 | Dec 22, 2018

Here, we get a nuanced and heartbreaking picture of a child displaced to her Aunt and Uncle. However, the film needs to have more insights to sustain itself.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Oct 30, 2018

Summer 1993 is a quiet, tender character study focused on its young protagonist, her youthful existence in a state of flux following the death of her mother.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Oct 29, 2018