A refreshingly dramaless miniature canvas
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Duck Season (2006)
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Reviews Counted:72
Fresh:65
Rotten:7
Average Rating:7.1/10
Consensus: This modest cinematic slice-of-life manages to subtly capture many small but resonant and truthful moments of adolescence.
Theatrical Release:Mar 10, 2006 Limited
Box Office: $141,235
Synopsis: With DUCK SEASON, writer/director Fernando Eimbcke lovingly brings a touching tale to life. Shot in black-and-white and on a minuscule budget, Eimbcke's film is a slice-of-life comedy that takes... [More]
Starring: Enrique Arreola, Diego Catano, Daniel Miranda, Danny Perea
Director: Fernando Eimbcke
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Reviews for Duck Season
The modest film works best for the viewer who goes with its flow of inertia.
06/24/09
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10/18/08
Duck Season is definitely worth seeing, but mostly it is worth seeing past, into the future of a promising new filmmaker.
09/17/07
Above all, a character-driven movie
03/01/07
A nuanced, authentic portrait of adolescent ennui and maturation that treats pre-teen emotions with a Jim Jarmusch-ian brand of detached sympathy and bemusement.
12/27/06
Lovingly cast, suavely directed and always pitched perfectly, whatever its tone, Duck Season is the kind of small, quiet, thoughtful movie that ought to be as abundant as Sunday afternoons.
11/11/06
Watch it passively and you might wonder how it even qualifies as a movie; watch it with your full attention and you will see a charming and surprisingly meaningful look at adolescent angst.
09/07/06
...for the viewer interested in an amusing, thoughtful, independent, slice-of-life film.
08/31/06
The fullness of Duck Season is in direct proportion to its smallness; its modesty makes it bloom.
05/12/06
Top CriticBecause it's shot in black and white, involves characters doing bland things in a bland setting, and yet is surprisingly entertaining, you could call this Clerks -- The Mexican Home Edition.
04/21/06
Effortlessly nonchalant in its observations of kids and the way the world looks to them.
04/21/06
Top CriticRuns more on charm than inspiration, but it convincingly conveys something of the terrible, giddy solipsism of adolescence, with its contradictory longings for freedom and security...
04/21/06
Burn off 87 minutes of your sentence in Hell by sitting through writer-director Eimbcke's B&W dreary dreamscape about (his) a boy's gay awakening.
04/18/06
Imagine Waiting for Godot performed by The Breakfast Club.
04/14/06
There are several moments of high, unheralded humor -- although whenever you find yourself laughing, you have to ask yourself if you aren't merely grateful that anything is happening at all.
04/13/06
The bemused sympathy we feel is brought about by both young actors doing a fine job with the minimalist material.
04/10/06
Often dull dialogue and marginally interesting characters.
04/06/06
Top CriticDirector Eimbcke scores a bulls eye as Ferris Bueller takes a day off in Mexico City.
04/03/06
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