After meeting online, transatlantic lovers Aviva and Eden embark on a tumultuous courtship, love affair and marriage. The couple struggles, separates, and tries to get back together, as dual aspects of each one's personality battles forces inside and out.... (Full plot summary below)
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After meeting online, transatlantic lovers Aviva and Eden embark on a tumultuous courtship, love affair and marriage. The couple struggles, separates, and tries to get back together, as dual aspects of each one's personality battles forces inside and out.
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| Austin ChronicleRichard WhittakerHonestly, it's refreshing to have a movie built around dance and dancers that emphasizes both art and character, especially after the tedious schlock of Gaspar Noé's severely anticlimactic "Climax." |
| Film ThreatAlex SavelievAviva is a palindrome, reflecting the film’s ouroboros-like narrative. It’s also a Hebrew name, which translates as “spring-like” or “fresh”–both adjectives applicable to the sensual and passionate Aviva. Love it or hate it, it’s… well, it’s art. I loved it, warts and all. Perhaps Yakin has finally discovered his style. |
| The Film StageJohn FinkExplicit and spontaneous, Aviva is a film with several brilliant moments that sometimes loses its way in overly indulgent sequences and set pieces as it dares to chronicle nearly every intimate encounter its characters and many of their friends have over the course of about 40 years. While overly ambitious, Yakin imagines the private life your lover had before you with a sociological lens. |
| RogerEbert.comTomris LafflyWith a cast made up of dancers entirely, the resulting work feels like a bold, deeply personal, and psychological ode to the numerous facades of romantic relationships, both uplifting and gloomy. |
| The Hollywood ReporterSheri LindenYakin and his terpsichorean cast take exhilarating chances of the sort all too seldom seen on screens these days. |
| The GuardianCath ClarkeThe film’s big experiment feels only semi-interesting. |
| IndieWireJude DryIt’s an ambitious piece, but in the dance between experimental ideas and grounded storytelling, Aviva should have listened to her body. |
| The New York TimesBrian SeibertPride in frank eccentricity pushes at times into the unintentionally absurd. Still, it’s exciting how these dance sequences are treated like any other scene, and disappointing when the compulsion to justify them takes hold. |
| Rolling StoneDavid FearThere is a sense of healing — emotional, personal, psychic, definitely and defiantly sexual — that this filmmaker seems to be chasing. The ultimate goal, however, is really just casting away creative shackles and just letting it all hang out without professional worry. Yakin has assuredly done that. |
| Los Angeles TimesMichael OrdonaThe film fails to coalesce largely because viewers are left to wonder what joins the couple in the first place. |
