Marrowbone
Even after the death of the mother and the presence of something terrible, the family tries to survive and stay together.
16 April 1996, Miami, Florida, USA
1946, UK
13 March 1992, London, England, UK
1994, Bridlington, East Riding of Yorkshire, England, UK
1968, Camden, London, England, UK
November1993, Southwark, London, England, UK
September 15, 2017
Powerfully frustrating, undone by an ornate storytelling style in which twists only beget more twists, all in service of some fairly obvious observations about guilt, self-deception and devotion.
September 15, 2017
Scary enough to please most genre buffs, it would also play well in art houses: If you were to go through and remove every hint of ghosts, you'd still have a drama well worth seeing.
October 07, 2017
An almost comically by-the-numbers ghost story...
October 05, 2017
Sergio G Sánchez has lofty ambitions, involving guilt, coming of age and a whisper of the supernatural - but without the emergency brake he is usually offered by whichever director he is working with to rein him in.
September 20, 2017
A few brushes with satisfactory filmmaking craft is a moot thing to champion in a film this mucked up.
October 31, 2017
Unequivocally Sanchez. [Full Review in Spanish]
September 28, 2017
In the end, all the creaky floorboards and crackly old-vinyl recordings of 1940s ballads in the world, can't obscure the fact that the most haunting things about "Marrowbone" are the ghosts of all the better movies it fleetingly resembles.
October 24, 2017
Despite the fine performancse of his cast of young stars... [director Sergio G.] Sanchez forgets the essence of his film, the same that made us empathize with the fables of Bayona and Amenabar: fear of the loss of loved ones. [Full review in Spanish]
October 31, 2017
A virtuous, even happy tape, so to speak. [Full Review in Spanish]
