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Movie Info

Director:

Bani Khoshnoudi

Cast & Crew

Arash Marandi

Flor Eduarda Gurrola

Luis Alberti

Eligio Meléndez

Bani Khoshnoudi
Director

Critic Reviews for Luciérnagas

All Critics (10) | Top Critics (1) | Fresh (10)

Fireflies is rich in food for thought, opening up unexplored parallels between its characters...

March 12, 2019 | Full Review…

Jonathan Holland
Hollywood Reporter
Ramin's easily telegraphed relationship with Guillermo is not as illuminating as his kinship with a local hotel owner. Their solidarity, and the film's refreshingly irregular structure, make Fireflies worth catching.

February 28, 2021 | Rating: 3.5/5 | Full Review…

Cassidy Olsen
Dig Boston
With poetic visuals, the city of Veracruz becomes one more character in this sensitivebut cruel story [Full Review in Spanish]

August 28, 2020 | Full Review…

Gisela Savdie
El Heraldo
In her latest film, Bani Khoshnoudi continues to talk about the need for something intangible and indescribable but necessary. [Full Review in Spanish]

December 9, 2019 | Rating: 3.5/5 | Full Review…

Elizabeth Limón
En Filme
Being an Iranian filmmaker the architect of this proposal indicates that a gender perspective can transform a whole social landscape. [Full Review in Spanish]

September 30, 2019 | Full Review…

Carlos Bonfil
La Jornada
Although the film calmly and sensitively portrays empathy and hope in difficult times, it is an irregular journey of pursuit of personal freedom that has an ambiguous structure in its narrative. [Full Review in Spanish]

September 22, 2019 | Full Review…

Mariana Fernández
Butaca Ancha
This is a warmly provocative film that touches on big issues in personal ways, adding nice textures to the connections people make between each other.

June 24, 2019 | Rating: 3.5/5 | Full Review…

Rich Cline
Shadows on the Wall
[A] poignant, artfully made drama.... Marandi gives an affecting, internal performance;.... Luis Alberti smolders with intensity.

June 14, 2019 | Full Review…

Gary M. Kramer
San Francisco Bay Times
An affecting portrait of loneliness and resolve in the face of adversity.

April 19, 2019 | Full Review…

Rubén Rosario
MiamiArtZine
It is in that lack of muscle where the film feels lax but where it also deepens the rest of the narration, the taciturn tone, almost dull, resistant but not combative that has invaded us from the beginning. [Full Review in Spanish]

March 8, 2019 | Full Review…

Erick Estrada
Cinegarage