Notturno

critic Reviews

, 82% Certified Fresh Tomatometer Score
  • Notturno contemplates the cost of war in starkly human terms by surveying the lives of people living under the threat of destruction.
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    Simran HansObserver (UK)
    Rosi's method of patient observation allows him to make poetic connections across borders...
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    Donald ClarkeIrish Times
    Nobody with a sense for contemplative cinema will be left unsatisfied by Notturno.
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    David JenkinsLittle White Lies
    It's about the steps towards healing, challenging Western viewers to allow images of beauty and normalcy to play a part in that journey.
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    Peter BradshawGuardian
    It's an intensely considered curation of scenes: glimpses, perhaps, into a collective mind or soul.
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    Danny LeighFinancial Times
    You may feel unease at the perfect tableaux of grief-broken mothers in the abandoned cells of their dead sons. Fortunately Rosi is not without self-awareness.
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    Richard WhittakerAustin Chronicle
    The overall effect is like picking up a copy of National Geographic, turning to a long and ambitious photo essay, and not reading the captions. It also shows the limits of what Rosi can achieve.
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    Tom O'BrienNext Best Picture
    Rosi has demonstrated once again that he has one of the best eyes among documentarians for capturing indelible and expressive imagery, many of which in "Notturno," despite its flaws, you will likely remember long after you see it.
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    Witney SeiboldCritically Acclaimed Podcast
    The devastation of war will remain forever. 'Notturno' puts a human face to that.
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    Lawrence GarciaIn Review Online
    The echoes of war reverberate throughout Notturno, a film of unnerving quietude that, as per its title, unfolds in something like a perpetual gloaming.
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    Carlos BonfilLa Jornada
    From this narrative strategy emerges not a routine rhetoric of denunciation... [but something] that invites the viewer to find the internal logic, the common thread. [Full review in Spanish]
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