
Ten years after a tsunami destroyed a small-town elementary school with all the children inside, a young man builds a mysterious structure out of the school's remains, setting the town aflame with passions long forgotten.... (Full plot summary below)
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Ten years after a tsunami destroyed a small-town elementary school with all the children inside, a young man builds a mysterious structure out of the school's remains, setting the town aflame with passions long forgotten.
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| Audiences EverywhereNathanael HoodJulio Quintana's The Vessel is a gorgeous, lyrical film about faith that's more interested in questions than in answers. |
| Austin ChronicleSteve DavisThe Vessel speaks eloquently. It’s a testament to the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things unseen. |
| Spirituality and PracticeFrederic and Mary Ann BrussatA stirring parable about the spiritual transformation of a community after a tragedy. |
| New York TimesAndy WebsterThe Vessel is a modest, but not maudlin, parable of hope about mustering the strength to vigorously plunge again into life’s uncertainties after a devastating loss. |
| Los Angeles TimesGary GoldsteinIt’s a strange brew: stark yet beautiful, urgent yet dreamlike. |
| VarietyNick SchagerCuban-American writer-director Julio Quintana’s feature debut has an understated formal loveliness that helps offset its more heavy-handed allegorical inclinations. |
| The Film StageBrian RoanAs powerfully felt and gorgeously realized as anything one may see on screen this year. |
| Georgia StraightJanet SmithThe Vessel is a gorgeously lensed parable. It's just that its messages and symbolism are so heavy-handed, so laden with biblical meaning, they're never left to work their own miracles. |
| The Hollywood ReporterFrank ScheckFilmed in a gorgeous, dreamlike style and Infused with heavy doses of mysticism and allegory, The Vessel is an impressive effort that loses some of its impact, however, for being so derivative. |
| Village VoiceSimon AbramsQuintana's emphasis on Jungian dream logic gives his otherwise spartan parable a compelling mythic dimension. The Vessel may bring Malick to mind, but it also feels like a major work by an exciting new talent. |