Boi: reviews

What the critics say average 5.5 from 4 outlets

• 8.0 Time OutEulàlia Iglesias Jorge M. Fontana offers in his first movie a portrait of the Catalan capital, in accordance with his current identity. 'Boi' goes through the intimate crisis of the first character, a young man at his twenties whom Bernat Quintana incarnates with maturity, who seeks his place in the world, like so many characters of the independent American cinema from which this film drinks. Read
• 6.0 FotogramasFausto Fernández The movie reposts with well-understood postmodernity its repository of referents, its action sequences remarkably posed and resolved. To then return to Les Surfs, to books and photographs with a je t'aime, je t'aime in the dedication, tuning in a 'you will be my baby' of a new and possible Nouvelle Vague. Read
• 6.0 CriticVíctor López G. Without doubt, it is one of the most promising debuts of recent years. Read
• 2.0 El MundoAlberto Luchini From the middle of the (too long) movie, it takes a Copernican twist and becomes an absurd, gloomy, inconsistent and even incomprehensible thriller in which all the virtues of the first part are diluted to be plunged into complete oblivion: the main characters are blurred and become caricatures, the staging is accelerated to fall into precipitation and the dialogues lose the freshness and irony that characterized them until then. Read
• El PeriódicoBeatriz Martínez Jorge M. Fontana makes his debut in style and personality with a film like an urban nightmare that takes us through 48 hours through the streets of a technological daytime Barcelona that at night becomes a space halfway between the decadence and surrealism. Read
• El PaísJavier Ocaña The script stucks in the middle of the film, so it drift till the end, as a grotesque thriller with a surreal touch. However its essence lies at: the extraordinary of the ordinary. Not because lack of audacity, which it has it, but for a serious problem of narration and concretion, as if in the editing phase or at the last version of the script, they had made disappear a part of the story. Read