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Hide Your Smiling Faces
Description
After a neighborhood tragedy, two adolescent brothers confront changing relationships, the mystery of nature, and their own mortality.
After a neighborhood tragedy, two adolescent brothers confront changing relationships, the mystery of nature, and their own mortality.
Actors:
Ivan Tomic,
Nathan Varnson,
Chris Kies,
Ivan Tomic,
Andrew M. Chamberlain,
Ryan Jones,
Colm OLeary,
Clark Middleton,
Christina Starbuck,
Thomas Cruz
Ivan Tomic
Nathan Varnson
Chris Kies
Ivan Tomic
October 29, 1972 in Kragujevac, Serbia, Yugoslavia
Andrew M. Chamberlain
Ryan Jones
Colm OLeary
Clark Middleton
Christina Starbuck
Thomas Cruz
Genre:
Drama
Country:
United States
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August 15, 2014
The long silences and overdone symbolism make this feel like a hodgepodge of Mud, King of Summer and just about every other American indie film.
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April 03, 2014
There's a startling stillness about the film, especially the opening scenes, that becomes a character in itself and helps to avoid softness.
March 28, 2014
It's not just these children's smiling faces that are hidden here - it's everything that might make you want to search out the meaning behind them.
August 04, 2014
Expect Daniel Patrick Carbone to have an illustrious career. And even if he doesn't, he's given us one perfectly polished jewel here.
June 07, 2016
By showing and not telling, Carbone creates a profoundly tender work made all the more affecting by his young stars' effortless performances.
April 10, 2014
[Features an] outsider perspective, authentic locations, unforced naturalism, and fresh, improvisatory work by first-time actors.
March 31, 2014
Traces of classic coming-of-age dramas such as Stand by Me and River's Edge are evoked in this lyrical and low-key reflection on sudden mortality and childhood's end.
November 05, 2014
Despite its languid pacing, there's an underlying unease that never entirely relaxes its grip.
August 01, 2014
With a low-key pace and extremely loose plot, this introspective drama gets deep under the skin as it explores a pivotal summer for two brothers.
March 28, 2014
This lyrical drama announces the arrival of a talented young director with a keen grasp of youth; a man who presents a truthful vision of how death impacts soon-to-be men differently depending on their ages.
August 01, 2014
Hide Your Smiling Faces is a beautifully shot, highly stylised portrait of American adolescence.
March 30, 2014
Quickly and assuredly, writer-director Carbone puts us in the mood of these languorous summer days.
