The Vessel (2016)
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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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83
As powerfully felt and gorgeously realized as anything one may see on screen this year.
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Village Voice
Quintana'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.
78
The Vessel speaks eloquently. It’s a testament to the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things unseen.
70
Cuban-American writer-director Julio Quintana’s feature debut has an understated formal loveliness that helps offset its more heavy-handed allegorical inclinations.
70
It’s a strange brew: stark yet beautiful, urgent yet dreamlike.
