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The Future Perfect

El futuro perfecto

2016

Nele Wohlatz

Xiaobin Zhang, Saroj Kumar Malik, Mian Jiang, Nahuel Pérez Biscayart

6.3

268

Drama Xiaobin is 17 years old and does not speak a single word of Spanish when she arrives in Argentina. But a few days later, she already has a new name, Beatriz, and a job in a Chinese supermarket. Her family lives in a parallel world in a launderette, far removed from the Argentinians. Xiaobin secretly saves money and enrols at a language school.

	Author	Review
United States	Jay Weissberg Variety	"An unpretentious delight (...) Wohlatz’s sensitivity to language (...) is subtly yet rigorously demonstrated (...) Conceptually it's delightfully rich"	POS
United States	Neil Young The Hollywood Reporter	"A droll exercise in rethinking cinematic 'language' (...) Wryly amusing, intriguingly stylized"	POS
United States	Aaron Hillis Village Voice	"[A] brisk metafictional charmer"	POS
United States	Glenn Kenny The New York Times	"There is gentle comedy here (...) The film’s unusual perspective makes it a distinctive and potentially enriching experience."	POS
United States	Clayton Dillard Slant	"The film’s singularity of vision derives in part from its unusual comingling of settings and characters (…) Rating: ★★★ (out of 5)"	POS

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