
Agnes returns to her hometown in Nova Scotia to reunite with her estranged sisters and care for her dying mother. As they tend to their mother, family secrets emerge and disrupt the sisters' fragile dynamic.... (Full plot summary below)
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Agnes returns to her hometown in Nova Scotia to reunite with her estranged sisters and care for her dying mother. As they tend to their mother, family secrets emerge and disrupt the sisters' fragile dynamic.
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| Village VoiceJessica WinterA scrupulous and impeccably acted account of the fallout from a family secret. |
| Chicago ReaderJ.R. JonesIt has all the virtues of fine stage drama: narrative economy, honest emotion, and characters so closely defined that the most pedestrian encounters between them are revelatory. |
| San Francisco ChronicleEdward GuthmannDownbeat but ultimately hopeful, it's a domestic tragedy that cuts clearly to the bone, finding emotional nuance among the family's knotty secrets and dense layers of subterfuge. |
| Combustible CelluloidJeffrey M. AndersonThe gray, lazy Nova Scotia atmosphere helps a great deal.; the cold and fog permeate the film indoors as well as out. |
| Jam! MoviesLouis B. HobsonGiven Marion Bridge trots out almost every cliche of the chick flick, it is all the more remarkable that it works as well as it does. |
| VarietyDennis HarveySensitive directorial bow by editor Wiebke von Carolsfeld and solid performances lend conviction if not quite distinction to the drama Marion Bridge. |
| TV Guide MagazineMaitland McDonaghStory of small triumphs and everyday sorrows is never maudlin or sentimental. |
| Vue Weekly (Edmonton, Alberta)Brian GibsonToo many scenes are colourless and unimaginative...There's a gap between the pedestrianism of life and the necessary dramatic tension of art [that] this film never bridges. |
| The A.V. ClubNoel MurrayIf von Carolsfeld had worked more surprises into her style and presentation, Marion Bridge wouldn't live down to its genre stereotype so readily. |
| New York Daily NewsJami BernardThis Canadian film is extraordinarily low-key, considering the explosive secrets the sisters unearth, but that is part of its strength. |