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Ciao (2008)
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Reviews Counted:12
Fresh:4
Rotten:8
Average Rating:5/10
Theatrical Release:Dec 5, 2008 Limited
Synopsis: A man dies very unexpectedly and leaves behind two men: Jeff, his best friend and Andrea, an Italian he’s been corresponding with online. Jeff informs Andrea of Mark’s passing; Andrea writes back... [More]
Starring: Adam Neal Smith, Alessandro Calza, Charles W. Baum, Ethel Lung
Director: Yen Tan
Reviews for Ciao
1 - 12 (sorted by date)
In Yen Tan's glacially paced movie (every shot is relentlessly symmetrical), the actors are squares in graph-paper compositions.
01/30/09
Top CriticYen Tan's Ciao is a revelation, a minimalist work of maximum effect. It is determinedly understated and consistently expressive, beautifully composed yet never studied.
12/29/08
Top CriticIt's made on the smallest of budgets and features awkward if sincere performances, yet Yen Tan's film still manages to strike a series of plangent emotional truths about speaking one's heart and moving on.
12/19/08
Top CriticCiao moves at a snail's pace. It feels long even at its abbreviated length.
12/12/08
Top CriticThe story is so minimal that it almost doesn't exist.
12/05/08
Top CriticIn theory, there's no reason a movie shouldn't endeavor to be somber and tentatively hopeful at the same time. In practice, unfortunately, Ciao is depressing and ploddingly elegiac.
12/05/08
Deeply sincere and exceedingly slow even at 87 minutes, Ciao involves two strangers who become acquaintances after the death of a mutual friend.
12/05/08
Top CriticThe plotline of 'Ciao' is trite -- and the filmmaking itself drags.
12/04/08
It’s hard to shake the feeling that the onscreen words stick too close to the facts: The dialogue drags, making the viewer like an invisible third wheel at a nervous, slightly dull first date.
12/03/08
The film's calculatingly minimalist style is in many ways as affected as all the gay Amerindie films at which writer-director Yen Tan snottily thumbs his nose.
12/03/08
Top CriticHelmer/co-scripter Tan conceives of his two characters as complementing each other within a minor key.
10/18/08
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