
Three days after the terrorist attack on the offices of Parisian weekly Charlie Hebdo and forty days after the death of his father, Lary, a doctor in his forties is about to spend the Saturday at a family gathering to commemorate the deceased. But the occasion does not go according to expectations. Forced to confront his fears and his past, to rethink the place he holds within the family, Lary finds himself constraint to tell his version of the truth.... (Full plot summary below)
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Three days after the terrorist attack on the offices of Parisian weekly Charlie Hebdo and forty days after the death of his father, Lary, a doctor in his forties is about to spend the Saturday at a family gathering to commemorate the deceased. But the occasion does not go according to expectations. Forced to confront his fears and his past, to rethink the place he holds within the family, Lary finds himself constraint to tell his version of the truth.
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| Cinemanía (Spain)Nando SalváThe type of film for which the qualifier "Masterpiece" was invented. [Full review in Spanish] |
| NOW TorontoJosé TeodoroSieranevada pulses with humour, insight and momentum and is one of the most beautifully wrought films of the past year. |
| National PostCalum MarshThat's the other thing about Puiu's brand of realism: it effaces the virtuosity required to pull it off. The very mode downplays the feat. |
| El Mundo (Spain)Luis MartínezAn exercise in cinema so precise, ambitious and, if you will, torn. And tragically comic. Maybe monumental. [Full review in Spanish] |
| SensacineQuim CasasThe story goes on without being exhausted, showing the relationships of a dysfunctional family with absurd moments in which the emotions are expressed with strange intimacy. [Full review in Spanish] |
| Caimán Cuadernos de CineJavier H. EstradaSieranevada exposes unrelentlessly and with great and sharp humor a society where faith and ideologies from the past have now been erradicated. [Full review in Spanish] |
| ClarínGaspar ZimermanThis dramatic comedy that takes place in an apartment is another example of the good moment Romanian cinema is going through. [Full review in Spanish] |
| Daily Telegraph (UK)Tim RobeyIt earns respect and a cumulative awe in its intently amused vision of reality: it's a commanding and intellectually gratifying piece of work. |
| La JornadaLeonardo Garcia TsaoThose engaged with the numerous characters, their fights, their humor, will be able to enjoy this peculiar naturalism of Rumanian cinema. [Full review in Spanish] |
| Otroscines.comDiego LererIt explores family relationships, infidelities, and internal treasons, but it never leaves political context outside. [Full review in Spanish] |