Directed by:
Martin KrejčíScreenplay:
Olivia DufaultCinematography:
Andrew Droz PalermoComposer:
Nick UrataCast:
Jaeden Martell, John Turturro, Eve Hewson, Chris Messina, Chloë Sevigny, Stephen McKinley Henderson, Kate Thulin, J.J. Alfieri, Michelle Wilson (more)VOD (1)
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Paul is a loner who exchanges a mere few words with his father every now and then. His mother left them long ago, long enough for the silent kid to remember her only through a cloud of illusions. Making friends is practically impossible because he looks drastically different from his peers: he has the condition known as congenital hypertrichosis, meaning that he suffers from an abnormal amount of hair growth. On his thirteenth birthday, Paul decides to take his unenviable fate into his own hands and seek out his mother in order to get answers to unasked questions. In his masterfully directed feature debut – an archetypal search for identity despite the odds – Martin Krejčí skillfully combines a solid grounding in contemporary reality with the otherness of a world reminiscent of myth and legend. (Karlovy Vary International Film Festival)
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Such a small and pleasant “Amblin movie”. #KVIFF2019
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At first, this realistically conceived drama seems to be a story about the search for identity in a society that is not very friendly toward significant physical differences, to which people often react aggressively or derisively. Unfortunately the film abandons this concept relatively quickly and instead escapes to a much safer space of a dreamy, fabulously imaginative world, governed by its own rules, and in which man's reconciliation with himself is much easier. The main protagonists of the film are thirteen-year-old, precocious and bizarrely thinking children, yet who behave like adults in many respects, and they are in a senselessly stylized environment composed of random motifs, and they are followed by the police and John Turturro in the very special role of a crazy carny.
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