Americano (Blu-ray)
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Blu-ray Details
- Run Time: 1 hours, 46 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: October 30, 2012
- Originally Released: 2011
- Label: MPI Home Video
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Mathieu Demy, Geraldine Chaplin, Chiara Mastroianni & Salma Hayek | |
Performer: | Carlos Bardem | |
Directed by | Mathieu Demy | |
Screenwriting by | Mathieu Demy | |
Composition by | Grégoire Hetzel & Georges Delerue | |
Produced by | Mathieu Demy |
Entertainment Reviews:
Rating: 2/5 --
Scenes of the director as a school-age boy in a Varda film are haunting, but end up simply sparking a desire to see Varda's work. It may take time for the son to catch his own wave.
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New York Daily News
Rating: 6/10 --
...if you can't get past the flaws, you could always rent it just to see Salma's exotic dance number.
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JoBlo's Movie Emporium
Rating: C --
Demy leans heavily on a cinematic legacy that also seems to hold him back.
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AV Club
Rating: 3.5/5 --
A French man follows his quest to find out more about his estranged mother following her death in Venice, California.
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Spirituality and Practice
The film's appeal has less to do with plot than mood. Demy balances his father's romanticism and his mother's naturalism, taking cues from both.
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NPR
Rating: 1.5/4 --
This odd hybrid of in-search-of-mother quest and lurid border-town pulp shows a humane intimacy mostly in touches borrowed from the filmmaker's estimable parents.
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Slant Magazine
Rating: 5.5/10 --
A film with a compelling story (though far too dependent on a single character) fails to move its audience, even as its own scenes somehow fail to move their protagonist.
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Paste Magazine
Product Description:
A man struggles to come to terms with his past as well as his family relationships in this drama. Martin (Mathieu Demy) was born in Los Angeles and spent much of his childhood there, but his parents were from France, and when his mother (Sabine Mamou) went through a nervous breakdown, his father relocated to Europe and took the boy with him. Martin rarely saw his mother again, and her absence left a void in his life that has impacted his relationships with women ever since, most recently his on and off romance with Claire (Chiara Mastroianni). When Martin receives word that his mother has died, he travels to California to take care of the arrangements with the help of Linda (Geraldine Chaplin), one of his mother's best friends. Martin intends to clear everything away as quickly as possible and return home, but talking with Linda and going through his mother's effects causes him to question his feelings about her, and when he sees an old snapshot of himself with his mom and a woman named Lola, he suddenly becomes obsessed with finding her. Martin's obsession leads him to Tijuana, where he falls for a stripper named Lola (Salma Hayek) who embodies the strength and joie de vivre that Martin has lost. AMERICANO was the first feature film from writer, director and actor Mathieu Demy, the son of filmmakers Jacques Demy and Agnes Varda; clips from Varda's 1981 film DOCUMENTEUR are used in the film's flashback sequences.