Liverpool (2008)

What if Odysseus made it home and nobody cared? "What are you drawing?" "A heart."

Sean Gilman

Minimalism done like impressionistic poetry. Alonso's second most acclaimed effort balances imagery with character psychology in the most pristine fashion. He could have started the story from any point of time in the past and could have extended it to any time in the…

Edgar Cochran ✝️🍋

Alonso's Argentinian time stretcher Liverpool exhibits incredulous landscape images (rural Argentina covered in snow) and by remaining seated in the realms of slow cinema thinks this have said it all. It's the story of the pale, gloomy sailor who visits his mother, who no…

shookone

Liverpool is essentially about loneliness, and it channels this theme through its visual language and not through words. The film is about a merchant seaman named Farrel who applies for leave in order to visit his family in his home village after twenty years away. Those…

BollyFolly

My favorite Alonso so far. The least soluble of his features, the most diversely gorgeous, and the one that gives the greatest impression of an actual world, not just of landscapes. So many things hang in the background, and sometimes occupy the limelight, that could just…

Jake Cole

Merely two moments of transcendence almost carry Lisandro Alonso to the finish line with grace. Compared to Jauja, Alonso's "high-budget" arthouse breakout that both overwrites and overstretches itself to death, Liverpool possesses a minimalistic ease that, despite its…

nick

Vejamos: assistir ao próximo decalque inflado de subapichatponguismo (o Apichatpong que, como todos vocês sabem, foi o autor que teve o impacto e o raio de influência mais nefastos do cinema mundial nos últimos 15 anos) iso 9001 multicultural-multinacional do humanoide…

Bruno Andrade

Making sense of our existence through the distances between objects. Fifty minutes in i paused the movie, sat in the kitchen, and felt very calmed.

Martinaevaeva

La elección de estar solo y el precio a pagar; Liverpool puede ser muy personal para algunos.

jaime ⁎⁺˳✧༚