Bad Hair (Pelo Malo)
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DVD-R Details
- Run Time: 1 hours, 33 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 0 (Worldwide)
- Released: August 18, 2015
- Originally Released: 2014
- Label: Global Lens
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Beto Benites, Samantha Castillo & Samuel Lange Zambrano | |
Directed by | Mariana Rondon |
Entertainment Reviews:
Rating: 4/5 --
Writer-director Mariana Rondón offers a striking new twist on mother-son relationships.
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Time Out
Rating: B+ --
There's a sense of being trapped that permeates "Bad Hair" - trapped in your own flesh, trapped in circumstances, trapped in the family you're born into.
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Detroit News
Rating: 3/5 --
Rondón has plenty of important and harsh things to say about social constructs, hypocrisy and maternal tough love.
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Irish Times
Rating: 4/5 --
With two combustible lead performances and a vibrant representation of the high-rise life among Venezuela's working poor, Rondón leads an assured dance through universal themes of poverty, family and sexuality.
Little White Lies
Rating: 3/5 --
The director Mariana Rondón elicits a moving and unaffected performance from Lange as the boy desperate to please his mother even as he realises how much his behaviour vexes her.
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Independent (UK)
Rating: 3/5 --
A quietly perceptive work that teases out insights without undue strain.
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Guardian
Rating: 3/5 --
An imperfect yet endearing portrait of the complex sentiment that met the end of Chávez's rule in Venezuela, this affectionately articulated adolescent drama manages to take a few caustic swipes at the society that surrounds it.
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CineVue
Description by OLDIES.com:
Nine-year-old Junior lives in the chaotic city of Caracas with his haggard, out-of-work single mother and baby brother. Fixated on his appearance, Junior is convinced that his mother would love him more if he was able to tame the stubbornly curly hair -- or bad hair -- he inherited from his absent father. But as he grows increasingly obsessed with his hair, his mother, in turn, finds him too difficult to handle -- and a showdown looms. Bad Hair is an official selection of the prestigious, award-winning Global Lens Collection presented by the Global Film Initiative. In Spanish, with English subtitles.
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- UPC: 889290178626
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