Notturno
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, 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.
- , Fresh Tomatometer ScoreSimran HansObserver (UK)
Rosi's method of patient observation allows him to make poetic connections across borders...
Read full article - , Fresh Tomatometer ScoreDonald ClarkeIrish Times
Nobody with a sense for contemplative cinema will be left unsatisfied by Notturno.
Read full article - , Fresh Tomatometer ScoreDavid 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.
Read full article - , Fresh Tomatometer ScorePeter BradshawGuardian
It's an intensely considered curation of scenes: glimpses, perhaps, into a collective mind or soul.
Read full article - , Fresh Tomatometer ScoreDanny 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.
Read full article - , Fresh Tomatometer ScoreRichard 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.
Read full article - , Fresh Tomatometer ScoreTom 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.
Read full article - , Fresh Tomatometer ScoreWitney SeiboldCritically Acclaimed Podcast
The devastation of war will remain forever. 'Notturno' puts a human face to that.
Read full article - , Fresh Tomatometer ScoreLawrence 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.
Read full article - , Fresh Tomatometer ScoreCarlos 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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