Beanpole: reviews

What the critics say average 7.8 from 3 outlets

• 8.3 The PlaylistJordan Ruimy In a film that is so disinterested to conforming to accustomed mainstream movie audiences taste and rhythms, and is committed to its sometimes difficult choices, the bold and exacting Beanpole sometimes feels damn-near radical. Read
• 8.0 IndiewireDavid Ehrlich It explores the process through which people ? specifically, but not exclusively, women ? are able to restore a sense of purpose to their lives after they?ve been deprived of their biological imperative. Read
• 7.0 Screen DailyJonathan Romney The film displays intense emotional seriousness and is finely performed and directed; but further shaping could have revealed the more focused work that?s begging to emerge. Read
• VarietyJessica Kiang A vision of postwar Leningrad as a place where a nationwide pall of guilt, grief, and despair permeates to the bone like Chernobyl fallout, manifesting in paralysis, sarcasm, suicide, and madness. Read
• The Hollywood ReporterTodd McCarthy A somber, disturbing look at women survivors of the siege of Leningrad. Read
• FotogramasManu Yáñez Imposing (...) the unquestionable beauty of this pictorial tradition film, the harmful performances, and the worked psychologist background of the characters make 'Beanpole' a very intense experience. Read
• Caimán Cuadernos de CineCarlos F. Heredero An intense camera drama (...) a solid and absorbent film, in which the performances of Viktoria Miroshnichenko and Vasilisa Perelugina specially highlight. Read