A New York love story that toes the line between narrative and doc with two actors reliving parts of their own experiences.... (Full plot summary below)
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A New York love story that toes the line between narrative and doc with two actors reliving parts of their own experiences.
Leave your thoughts about Cicada.
| Los Angeles TimesGary GoldsteinThe absorbing romantic drama Cicada feels as real as it gets. |
| The Irish TimesDonald ClarkeThough there are some clunking flaws... Cicada has the compact shape of an elegant short story – open-ended, yet not incomplete. |
| CineVueMatthew AndersonTold with tenderness and honesty, Cicada is a treatment of trauma that does not judge or preach or take sides, but, in building to its breathless crescendo, goes to show just how much courage it takes to confront the past in order to look to the future. |
| Little White LiesMarina AshiotiIt struggles to find nuance in its storytelling approach. |
| The New York TimesKyle TurnerBen and Sam’s blossoming romance does a lot of telling and little showing. While there’s the occasional amusingly idiosyncratic section of dialogue that sounds like a series of stagily poetic non-sequiturs, much of the couple’s bonding feels straightforward and unremarkable. |
