Name: Acasa, My Home
Genre: Documentary
Released: 2019-12-19T08:38:57-08:00
Rating: 100

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Acasa, My Home presents a powerful documentary portrait of one family's odyssey that illustrates bittersweet truths about freedom and society. Read critic reviews

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Movie Info

A rural Romanian couple and their nine children must learn to live in the big city.

Genre:

documentary
Original Language:

Romanian
Director:

Radu Ciorniciuc
Producer:

Erkko Lyytinen, Monica Lazurean-Gorgan, Alina David
Release Date (Theaters):

Jan 15, 2021 limited
Runtime:

1h 26m
Production Co:

Corso Film, Manifest Film Co., HBO Romania, HBO Europe, Yle to 1 Finland

Cast & Crew

Radu Ciorniciuc
Director

Erkko Lyytinen
Producer

Monica Lazurean-Gorgan
Producer

Alina David
Producer

Hanka Kastelicová
Executive Producer

Radu Ciorniciuc
Executive Producer

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Critic Reviews for Acasa, My Home

All Critics (35) | Top Critics (12) | Fresh (35)

Rică, like Acasă, My Home itself, meditates on how we define a life worth choosing.

January 22, 2021 | Rating: 4/5 | Full Review…

Selome Hailu
Austin Chronicle
It's a remarkable piece of documentary access.

January 16, 2021 | Full Review…

Peter Rainer
FilmWeek (KPCC - NPR Los Angeles)
It's a very empathetic portrait, but it also shows the complexity of this family... I think it's most poignant when it focuses on the children.

January 16, 2021 | Full Review…

Claudia Puig
FilmWeek (KPCC - NPR Los Angeles)
Needless to say, the point of Ciorniciuc's immersive, lively, warm and heartbreaking film is not to see the Enaches in the park as total paradise and their stab at urban living as some terrible detour into restrictiveness.

January 16, 2021 | Full Review…

Robert Abele
Los Angeles Times
While the meandering sensibility of "Acasa, My Home" makes it a tough sit at times, the spell it casts through its all-access dive into subterranean life brought to the surface forms a compelling addition to one of international cinema's deepest.

January 16, 2021 | Rating: B- | Full Review…

Ryan Lattanzio
indieWire
The secret of this beautiful, bittersweet film about a group of people like no other is that, in the end, it's all so shockingly relatable.

January 15, 2021 | Full Review…

Bilge Ebiri
New York Magazine/Vulture
Strong camera work follows a family from paradise to the promise, as yet unfulfilled, of urban upward mobility.

February 8, 2021 | Rating: 8/10 | Full Review…

Ron Wilkinson
It's Just Movies
Ciorniciuc extractsa seamless narrative with his compelling cinema verite style, yet he fails to fully explore the toxic patriarch at the story's heart.

January 26, 2021 | Rating: 3/5 | Full Review…

Jack Hawkins
HeyUGuys
At only 86 minutes, Ciorniciuc and editor Andrei Gorgan rarely allow their story to lag, although it's lack of any big climaxes mean broader appeal like that attained by Collective is harder to figure.

January 25, 2021 | Full Review…

Glenn Dunks
The Film Experience
Acasa is fascinating and complicated, lyrical and messy; we sympathize with the subjects while also feeling society's spasm of impatience with them.

January 23, 2021 | Full Review…

Dennis Harvey
48 Hills
This intimate documentary powerfully asks the question 'which of the places we live is destined to be remembered as home?'

January 22, 2021 | Full Review…

Linda Barnard
Original Cin
Acasa conceals multitudes within its deceptively simple story about real people confronting inexorable change. It's the first great documentary of 2021.

January 21, 2021 | Rating: B+ | Full Review…

Andrew Wyatt
The Lens