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Return to Ithaca

Retour à Ithaque (Return to Ithaca)

2014

Laurent Cantet

Isabel Santos, Jorge Perugorría, Fernando Hechavarría, Néstor Jiménez, Pedro Julio Díaz Ferrán

6.5

1,162

Drama A terrace overlooking Havana. Five friends gather to celebrate the return of Amadeo after 16 years of exile. From dusk to dawn, they reminisce about their youth, the group they used to form, the faith they had in the future — also their disillusionment.

	Author	Review
United States	Guy Lodge Variety	"Doesn't want for sensitivity, but overestimates viewers' investment in a quintet of prickly characters whose personal histories take the film's entire duration to assemble."	NEU
United States	David Rooney The Hollywood Reporter	"There's no denying that the talky drama demands patience. But it's nonetheless a lovingly made film that acquires unexpected poignancy as it airs both the spiritual surrender and the festering anger of a generation."	POS
United States	Jessica Kiang IndieWire	"'Return to Ithaca' gently expands our understanding of life within a society that, in contrast to our own, did not even pretend to cultivate the idea that its citizens were free."	POS
United Kingdom	Dan Fainaru Screendaily	"An amazingly astute, perceptive and at the same time moving film (...) [Cantet] keeps them all at an intimate, close range and is rewarded by uniformly excellent performances"	POS
United States	A.A. Dowd AV Club	"It’s just overwritten and un-cinematic"	NEG
United States	Jessica Kiang IndieWire	"A mild but insightful look at Cuba’s Castro generation (...) Your experience will depend entirely on your tolerance for learning social history lessons"	NEU

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