L'anno in cui i miei genitori andarono in vacanza

Kenneth Turan

"The Year My Parents Went on Vacation" is a sweet and somber film that works hard to overcome its limitations. Its tale of a 12-year-old boy coming of age has a weakness for the generic, but the film's setting is so quirkily unfamiliar in so many ways that it holds our interest in the way the boy's story doesn't always manage. The year in question is 1970, the country, Brazil. A note at the beginning of the film tells us what Brazilians already know: 1970 was, among other things, a time when the country struggled under a military dictatorship that made any kind of political opposition terribly dangerous. [...]

di Kenneth Turan, articolo completo (3538 caratteri spazi inclusi) su The Los Angeles Times 15 febbraio 2008