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The Place of No Words

2019

Bodhi Palmer, Teresa Palmer, Mark Webber, Phoebe Tonkin ...

Drama. Fantasy A young boy battles the complexities of a grown-up world with his father.

	Author	Review
United States	Tomris Laffly Variety	"Webber’s film navigates the vast notion of grief gently and with seriousness (...) This adventurous and often dream-like film manages to convey a strangely optimistic and freeing image of death"	POS
United States	Hoai-Tran Bui SlashFilm	"Though I couldn’t shake the feeling that Webber made 'The Place of No Words' as a highly produced home video for his family, it does at least touch on the lofty themes he tries to tackle"	NEU
United States	Michael Ordoña Los Angeles Times	"Bodhi Palmer delivers a remarkable, guileless performance (...) Cinematically, it draws influence from Terence Malick, but in a good way. It’s atmospheric, but not at the expense of emotion and humor"	POS
United States	Ben Kenigsberg The New York Times	"A depressing, charmless slog"	NEG
United States	Ally Johnson The Playlist	"Organic, never heavy-handed and only missing some cohesion (...) [it] is a beautiful and expressive piece of filmmaking"	POS
United States	John Serba Decider	"The Place of No Words feels less emotionally resonant than it is suffocating and depressing"	NEU
United Kingdom	Phuong Le The Guardian	"A magical realist story that feels at once awe-inspiring and intimate (...) Rating: ★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United States	Glenn Kenny rogerebert.com	"While Webber’s depictions of illness are notably lacking in bathos (...) But the movie’s imaginative energy is undeniable (...) Rating: ★★★ (out of 4)"	POS

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