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Lost Embrace (El Abrazo Partido)

Lost Embrace (El Abrazo Partido) (2004)

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83

Average Rating: 6.7/10
Reviews Counted: 47
Fresh: 39 | Rotten: 8

A low-key but charming tale that will put a smile on your face.

88

Average Rating: 7.3/10
Critic Reviews: 17
Fresh: 15 | Rotten: 2

A low-key but charming tale that will put a smile on your face.

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Average Rating: 3.7/5
User Ratings: 1,034

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Argentinean filmmaker Daniel Burman writes and directs the ensemble film El Abrazo Partido (Lost Embrace), a follow-up to his 2000 feature Waiting for the Messiah. Daniel Hendler plays Ariel, a young man who lives in a Jewish working-class section of Buenos Aires. Since his father went missing in the war, his mother Sonia (Adriana Aizenberg) and brother Joseph (Sergio Boris) work in the shopping and business district. With no interest in school or work, Ariel hangs out and sleeps with Rita

Unrated, 1 hr. 37 min.

Drama, Art House & International, Comedy

Marcelo Birmajer, Daniel Burman

Feb 14, 2006

New Yorker Films

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Critic Reviews for Lost Embrace (El Abrazo Partido)

All Critics (57) | Top Critics (19) | Fresh (40) | Rotten (9) | DVD (5)

As visually captivating as it is emotionally engaging.

August 12, 2005 Full Review Source: Toronto Star | Comment
Susan Walker
Toronto Star
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The film's sophistication -- and it is an immensely sophisticated film -- lies in its refusal to tuck in too tightly its shirttails.

August 12, 2005 Full Review Source: Globe and Mail | Comment
David Gilmour
Globe and Mail
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Plays out in a low-key but charming fashion.

June 3, 2005 Full Review Source: Dallas Morning News | Comment
Mario Tarradell
Dallas Morning News
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Burman succeeds in involving us with the kind of characters who don't normally find their way to the big screen.

April 15, 2005 Comment
Robert Denerstein
Denver Rocky Mountain News
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A beautifully crafted film. Full of intriguing tracking shots, broken into vignettes introduced with lyrical titles, it has a willfully patient pace.

April 15, 2005 Full Review Source: Denver Post | Comment
Lisa Kennedy
Denver Post
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Were it a book, it would go somewhere on the shelf with Jonathan Safran Foer and early Philip Roth. It also possesses traces of early Jean-Luc Godard and his wit with characters, as well as some of Wes Anderson's random silliness.

April 1, 2005 Full Review Source: Boston Globe | Comment
Wesley Morris
Boston Globe
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the film's leads say nothing about their characters that couldn't be gleaned from watching the film.

September 26, 2007 Full Review Source: Film4 | Comment
Anton Bitel
Film4 Source: Film4

Affectionate, funny and ultimately moving, Burman's fourth feature embraces humanity in the Argentinean marketplace.

June 15, 2007 Full Review Source: Film4 | Comment
Anton Bitel
Film4 Source: Film4

Does what it sets out to do--celebrate the good nature of those people who, despite life's difficulties, remain true to their loved ones, their friends, and themselves.

February 22, 2007 Full Review Source: Film Journal International | Comment
Rex Roberts
Film Journal International

The film's moments of whimsy and its wry comic insights into one man's Prufrockian drifting and yearning through life add up to a charming oddity.

December 21, 2005 Comment
Brian Gibson
Vue Weekly (Edmonton, Canada)

film that gives ultimate impression of missed opportunity

September 12, 2005 Full Review Source: Draxblog Movie Reviews | Comment
Dragan Antulov
Draxblog Movie Reviews Source: Draxblog Movie Reviews

This is an amusing movie with a warm fuzzy ending that makes you feel like you just been hugged.

June 3, 2005 Full Review Source: TheMovieChicks.com | Comment
Cherryl Dawson and Leigh Ann Palone
TheMovieChicks.com

A small film whose structural weaknesses are largely redeemed by its big heart.

June 1, 2005 Full Review Source: One Guy's Opinion | Comment
Frank Swietek
One Guy's Opinion
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I din't like it because it was so boring and absurd. It was a miracle that I didn't fall asleep while I watched it.

November 29, 2008
angie225
Angie L.

:rotten: Lost Embrace lacks a worthy-telling story that gets confusing and hard to understand. The film lasted a little more than an hour and a half, it was enough time to fall asleep and sleep for a long time.

November 25, 2008
vic40186
victor lopez

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