Cafarnao - Caos e miracoli

This movie starts with a boy suing his parents for bringing him into the world. It only gets more depressing

As the story of a feisty, vulnerable 12-year-old navigating the unforgiving streets of modern Beirut, "Capernaum" feels like a pointedly pessimistic offshoot of "The Bicycle Thief," the classic Italian neorealist tale of dispossession and dogged perseverance. Drenched in poverty, hopelessness and impotent fury, this impassioned if ambiguously focused story often feels like an exercise in psycho-emotional stamina, as writer-director Nadine Labaki puts her endearing young protagonist into increasingly agonizing situations, sorely testing the audience's capacity for vicarious but wrenchingly realistic suffering. [...]

di Ann Hornaday, articolo completo (3982 caratteri spazi inclusi) su The Washington Post 9 gennaio 2019