Leap Year (2011)
Average Rating: 7.3/10
Reviews Counted: 23
Fresh: 23 | Rotten: 0
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Average Rating: 7/10
Critic Reviews: 9
Fresh: 9 | Rotten: 0
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Laura is 25 years old. She's a journalist, she's single and lives in a small apartment in Mexico City. After a series of short-lived affairs, Laura meets Arturo. After the first time they make love, she is left deeply unsettled. They embark on an intense and passionate sexual relationship, in which pleasure, pain and love merge. As days go by which Laura conscientiously crosses out in a calendar, her secret past resurfaces, pushing Arturo to the limit. -- (C) Strand
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Cast
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Mónica DelCarmen
Laura -
Gustavo Sanchez Parr...
Arturo -
Marco Zapata
Raúl -
Armando Hernandez
Hombre 3 -
Monica del Carmen
Laura -
Bertha Mendiola
Viejita -
Diego Chas
Hombre 1 -
Ernesto Gonzalez
Viejito -
Jose Juan Meraz
Novio Vecina
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All Critics (23) | Top Critics (9) | Fresh (23) | Rotten (0) | DVD (2)
Nothing about Leap Year plays out exactly like you expect, and Rowe prefers to send you home with enigmatic questions instead of clear-cut answers.
Top Critic"Leap Year" might be too much for some audiences, but it is a potent and surprising work.
It's a gripping, mysterious use of no-budget cinema at its finest, and an intimate character study with surprising emotional power.
To Rowe's credit, this isn't just a movie about sex. It's a compassionate study of human loneliness.
A haunting portrait of loneliness in its starkest state.
Shocks only with its candor and complete lack of dramatic manipulation.
... A satisfying psychosexual drama, even-handed in its criticism of both bucolic and metropolitan society.
Del Carmen's sort of the shadow version of Anna Magnani. Emotionally frail, slumbering, and nearly inarticulate, yet hungry, seething, and Earth-Motherish. A powerful performance in one of the most explicit and shocking films of the past several years.
It's not because of the amount of sex and nudity that the word "daring" comes to mind in describing Mónica del Carmen's performance, a combination of subtle vulnerability and abandonment.
quiet, heartbreaking
Leap Year lets actions speak louder than words, and the actions here are shockingly explicit.
Something wicked this way comes in Michael Rowe's Leap Year, a character study of outstanding subtlety and fierce aesthetic exactitude.
From Mexico, this bold and yet subtle film is so bracingly realistic that at times we begin worrying about the central actress.
A tough but humane and affecting watch.
It's an intense, powerful and at times deeply painful movie, a serious exercise in sexual politics, and Mónica del Carmen as Laura gives an outstanding, brave performance.
A disturbing debut feature from Australian playwright Michael Rowe that is reminiscent of the Roman Polanski classic Repulsion.
Proves, if you were beginning to doubt, that people still make good grown-up films.
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Foreign Titles
- Leap Year (Año bisiesto) (DE)
- Leap Year (Ano bisiesto) (UK)
