In 1970, near the World Cup, Daniel Stern and his wife Miriam leaves Belo Horizonte in a hurry and scared with their ten years old son Mauro in their Volkswagen. While traveling to São Paulo, the couple explains Mauro that they will travel on vacation and will leave Mauro with his grandfather Mótel. Daniel promises to return before the first game of the Brazilian National Soccer Team in the Cup. The boy is left in Bom Retiro, a Jewish and Italian neighborhood, and waits for... (Full plot summary below)
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In 1970, near the World Cup, Daniel Stern and his wife Miriam leaves Belo Horizonte in a hurry and scared with their ten years old son Mauro in their Volkswagen. While traveling to São Paulo, the couple explains Mauro that they will travel on vacation and will leave Mauro with his grandfather Mótel. Daniel promises to return before the first game of the Brazilian National Soccer Team in the Cup. The boy is left in Bom Retiro, a Jewish and Italian neighborhood, and waits for Mótel in front of his apartment. When the next door neighbor Shlomo arrives, he tells the boy that Mótel had just had a heart attack and died. Alone and without knowing where his parents are, the boy is lodged by Shlomo and the Jewish community. Through the young neighbor Hanna, Mauro makes new friends, cheers for the Brazilian team and sees the movement of the police and militaries on the streets while waiting for his parents.
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| Boxoffice MagazineAmy NicholsonDirector Cao Hamburger's decision to capture the era through Mauro's eyes makes the world outside of soccer vague and frustrating |
| Chicago ReaderAndrea GronvallThis nuanced coming-of-age drama by Cao Hamburger exudes warmth without getting mired in nostalgia. |
| www.susangranger.comSusan GrangerThis droll coming-of-age story, set in the turbulent year of 1970, astutely captures the resilience of the human spirit. |
| Minneapolis Star TribuneColin CovertDirector Cao Hamburger has a warm, delicate sensibility that informs the story's commonplace events. Neither the story's drama nor its comedy are overstated. |
| San Antonio Express-NewsLarry RatliffTheir performances (Michel Joelsas, Daniela Piepszyk) %u2014 natural, poignant and wide-eyed about what life will serve up %u2014 are things of beauty. |
| Reeling ReviewsRobin Clifford...you can understand why Brazil proudly offered the film for Oscar consideration. |
| Village VoiceJean OppenheimerThis warmly engaging film benefits from its understated approach (it suggests rather than spells out the political turmoil), and its light, comedic tone never mitigates the drama of the central story. |
| Washington PostJohn AndersonWhat The Year My Parents Went on Vacation seems to be about, in the end, is big-time sport as the opiate of the masses. |
| Toronto StarPhilip MarchandDirector Cao Hamburger, a Brazilian of Italian and German descent, treats this development with a very light hand. |
| New York PostV.A. MusettoThe movie is stolen by 11-year-old Daniela Piepszyk as tomboy Hanna, one of Mauro's new friends. She has a face in a million. |
