The fullness of Duck Season is in direct proportion to its smallness; its modesty makes it bloom.
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05/12/06
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Duck Season (2006)
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Reviews Counted:21
Fresh:19
Rotten:2
Average Rating:7.7/10
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
Top CriticEffortlessly nonchalant in its observations of kids and the way the world looks to them.
04/21/06
Top CriticOften dull dialogue and marginally interesting characters.
04/06/06
Top CriticA quiet, loopy gem, Duck Season is a goofball celebration of old friends, new beginnings, adolescent freedom, and baked goods laced with a little something extra.
03/24/06
Top CriticBy the end, we realize that a bit of truth has been uncovered by Eimbcke, a director we'll no doubt be hearing from again.
03/24/06
Top CriticGive Duck Season a chance. Sit on your watch for the first 20 minutes and see what happens. Eimbcke's gentle persuasion will reward your patience for weeks to come.
03/24/06
Top CriticA film so small and understated that it was nearly over before I realized how much I was going to miss these characters once their story had been told.
03/20/06
Top CriticThe film's calm and witty visual rhythm offers a rueful awareness of time passing and of time wasted, in ways that people tend not to appreciate fully until long after they've wasted it.
03/18/06
Top CriticNot very much really happens in Duck Season, but in its rich details, it remembers how absorbing and endless every single day can seem when you're 14.
03/18/06
Top CriticDuck Season hits every one of its modest marks and then some. It's the kind of movie to send you out looking at strangers on the street with newfound appreciation and something close to love.
03/18/06
Top CriticThe beauty of Duck Season is its insistence that profound human experiences can arrive slowly, in incremental packages, scattered over the course of an average Sunday.
03/17/06
Top CriticDirector Fernando Eimbcke, in an extraordinary debut, never expresses contempt for his characters. By examining their inner lives with compassion and respect, he inspires us to do the same.
03/16/06
Top CriticSumming up Duck Season is a simple enough affair, but hardly does justice to this ironic, carefully crafted comedy, the latest indication that Mexican cinema is going through one of its spasmodic periods of renaissance.
03/11/06
Top CriticThough his camera rarely moves, Duck Season director Fernando Eimbcke and his cast capture teen ennui in an entertainingly universal way.
03/10/06
Top CriticIt's about the kind of kids who could never sit still enough, unfortunately, for a movie that perfectly captures the frustrations, longings, obsessions and torments of the awkward years before manhood.
03/10/06
Top CriticA story about friendship and the ecstasy of communion (not coincidentally, the story opens on a Sunday morning), Duck Season suggests that transcendence arrives when you least expect it.
03/09/06
Top CriticAs the Sunday in question spirals delicately but unmistakably out of control, Eimbcke's quiet but steely assurance asserts itself and causes all the film's disparate strands to come wonderfully together.
03/09/06
Top CriticEimbcke reveals a disciplined visual sense, a good ear for dialogue and an easy rapport with his fresh young actors.
03/09/06
Top CriticThe lovely, unpredictable comedy Duck Season marks the arrival of a fresh talent in writer-director Fernando Eimbcke.
03/09/06
Top CriticThe tender and droll Mexican charmer Duck Season captures the stalled rhythms of a lazy Sunday shared by pals, a time of idleness in which pleasure gets tangled with melancholy.
03/08/06
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