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Movie Info

A Venezuelan boy's (Samuel Lange Zambrano) desire to straighten his curly hair leads to friction between himself and his desperate single mother (Samantha Castillo).

Genre:

drama
Original Language:

Spanish
Director:

Mariana Rondon
Producer:

Gunter Hanfgarn, Marite Ugas
Writer:

Mariana Rondon
Release Date (Streaming):

Jan 25, 2017
Runtime:

1h 33m
Production Co:

Artefactos S.F

Cast & Crew

Samantha Castillo
Marta

Samuel Lange Zambrano
Junior

Nelly Ramos
Carmen

Beto Benites
El Jefe

María Emilia Sulbarán
Niña

Gabriel Guedez
Bebé

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Critic Reviews for Bad Hair

All Critics (39) | Top Critics (22) | Fresh (37) | Rotten (2)

There's a sense of being trapped that permeates "Bad Hair" - trapped in your own flesh, trapped in circumstances, trapped in the family you're born into.

February 27, 2015 | Rating: B+ | Full Review…

Tom Long
Detroit News
Rondn has plenty of important and harsh things to say about social constructs, hypocrisy and maternal tough love.

February 13, 2015 | Rating: 3/5 | Full Review…

Tara Brady
Irish Times
Rondn turns a deceptively simple coming-of-age tale into a vibrant treatise upon a raft of disparate issues ... with authenticity, integrity and, perhaps most impressively, a transcendent sense of levity.

February 1, 2015 | Rating: 4/5 | Full Review…

Mark Kermode
Observer (UK)
The director Mariana Rondn elicits a moving and unaffected performance from Lange as the boy desperate to please his mother even as he realises how much his behaviour vexes her.

January 29, 2015 | Rating: 3/5 | Full Review…

Geoffrey Macnab
Independent (UK)
Pelo Malo, which translates as "bad hair", takes a child's-eye view of growing up mixed race in the slums of Caracas, Venezuela.

January 29, 2015 | Rating: 4/5 | Full Review…

Kate Muir
Times (UK)
A quietly perceptive work that teases out insights without undue strain.

January 29, 2015 | Rating: 3/5 | Full Review…

Mike McCahill
Guardian
Some of the film's strongest images are of the massive tenements and the signs of life on the different balconies.

February 12, 2021 | Full Review…

David Walsh
World Socialist Web Site
Mariana Rondón...uses her knowledge and background from Barquisimeto, Venezuela to her advantage, beautifully capturing the setting and making the audience feel as if they are there, experiencing Latin America along with their family.

August 14, 2019 | Full Review…

Brigid Presecky
FF2 Media
An imperfect yet endearing portrait of the complex sentiment that met the end of Chávez's rule in Venezuela, this affectionately articulated adolescent drama manages to take a few caustic swipes at the society that surrounds it.

April 4, 2019 | Rating: 3/5 | Full Review…

Patrick Gamble
CineVue
Venezuelan filmmaker Mariana Rondn deftly explores gender roles and how poverty can amplify the prejudices against defying them.

August 15, 2017 | Rating: 3/5 | Full Review…

Alex Heeney
Seventh Row
Thought-provoking, troubling drama has explicit sex.

August 16, 2016 | Rating: 4/5 | Full Review…

Andrea Beach
Common Sense Media
In Mariana Rondon's heart-rending coming-of-age film, individuality stands little chance against the madding crowd of urban Venezuela.

December 30, 2015 | Rating: B+ | Full Review…

Eric Millman
Willamette Week

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Audience Reviews for Bad Hair

Apr 12, 2016

An irregular film that suffers from the contradictory behavior of its two main characters but has a poignant ending, even if the mother played by Castillo seems like a telenovela villain in urgent need of psychiatric help - although I do know that the world is full of people like that.

Carlos M Super Reviewer