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In Yen Tan's glacially paced movie (every shot is relentlessly symmetrical), the actors are squares in graph-paper compositions. Jan 30, 2009 | Rating: 2/4
In Yen Tan's glacially paced movie (every shot is relentlessly symmetrical), the actors are squares in graph-paper compositions.
Carrie Rickey
Yen Tan's Ciao is a revelation, a minimalist work of maximum effect. It is determinedly understated and consistently expressive, beautifully composed yet never studied. Dec 29, 2008 | Rating: 4.5/5 | Full Review…
Yen Tan's Ciao is a revelation, a minimalist work of maximum effect. It is determinedly understated and consistently expressive, beautifully composed yet never studied.
Kevin Thomas
It's made on the smallest of budgets and features awkward if sincere performances, yet Yen Tan's film still manages to strike a series of plangent emotional truths about speaking one's heart and moving on. Dec 19, 2008 | Rating: 2.5/4 | Full Review…
It's made on the smallest of budgets and features awkward if sincere performances, yet Yen Tan's film still manages to strike a series of plangent emotional truths about speaking one's heart and moving on.
Ty Burr
Ciao moves at a snail's pace. It feels long even at its abbreviated length. Dec 12, 2008 | Rating: 2/4 | Full Review…
Ciao moves at a snail's pace. It feels long even at its abbreviated length.
Ruthe Stein
The story is so minimal that it almost doesn't exist. Dec 5, 2008 | Rating: 2/4 | Full Review…
The story is so minimal that it almost doesn't exist.
V.A. Musetto
Deeply sincere and exceedingly slow even at 87 minutes, Ciao involves two strangers who become acquaintances after the death of a mutual friend. Dec 5, 2008 | Rating: 2/5
Deeply sincere and exceedingly slow even at 87 minutes, Ciao involves two strangers who become acquaintances after the death of a mutual friend.
Manohla Dargis
In theory, there's no reason a movie shouldn't endeavor to be somber and tentatively hopeful at the same time. In practice, unfortunately, Ciao is depressing and ploddingly elegiac. Dec 5, 2008 | Rating: 1.5/5 | Full Review…
In theory, there's no reason a movie shouldn't endeavor to be somber and tentatively hopeful at the same time. In practice, unfortunately, Ciao is depressing and ploddingly elegiac.
John P. McCarthy
The plotline of 'Ciao' is trite -- and the filmmaking itself drags. Dec 4, 2008 | Full Review…
The plotline of 'Ciao' is trite -- and the filmmaking itself drags.
Donald J. Levit
The ever-static camera undercuts the poignantly understated performances with the egotism of a futon ad photographer who fancies Ozu. Nov 30, 2008 | Rating: 2.5/4 | Full Review…
The ever-static camera undercuts the poignantly understated performances with the egotism of a futon ad photographer who fancies Ozu.
Joseph Jon Lanthier
It's hard to shake the feeling that the onscreen words stick too close to the facts: The dialogue drags, making the viewer like an invisible third wheel at a nervous, slightly dull first date. Dec 3, 2008 | Rating: 2/6 | Full Review…
It's hard to shake the feeling that the onscreen words stick too close to the facts: The dialogue drags, making the viewer like an invisible third wheel at a nervous, slightly dull first date.
Anna King
The film's calculatingly minimalist style is in many ways as affected as all the gay Amerindie films at which writer-director Yen Tan snottily thumbs his nose. Dec 3, 2008 | Full Review…
The film's calculatingly minimalist style is in many ways as affected as all the gay Amerindie films at which writer-director Yen Tan snottily thumbs his nose.
Ed Gonzalez
Helmer/co-scripter Tan conceives of his two characters as complementing each other within a minor key. Oct 18, 2008 | Full Review…
Helmer/co-scripter Tan conceives of his two characters as complementing each other within a minor key.
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