Nervous Translation: reviews

What the critics say

• VarietyJAY WEISSBERG An understated yet appealing imagined-memory piece set in Manila in the late 1980s. Read
• The PlaylistKyle Kohner Unfortunately, Seno?s youthful slew of surreal events often makes ?Nervous Translation? hard-to-follow to the point where the child?s abstracted point of view becomes too disjointing. Read
• The Hollywood ReporterClarence Tsui Nervous Translation is at once a powerful rite-of-passage drama and an allegory about the uncertainty of life in the Philippines in the late 1980s, when the country emerged from two decades of dictatorship and plunged headlong into capitalism. Read
• CriticShireen Seno Seno empathetically captures the innocence and uncertainty of a child who doesn?t yet understand the world, although she is surrounded by it. Read