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The Wait
Directed by
Piero Messina
2015
1h 40m
Not Rated
Drama
6.5
73%
54%
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A mother unexpectedly meets her son's fiancée at a villa in Sicily and gets to know her as she waits for her son to arrive.
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Cast of The Wait
Juliette Binoche
Anna
Lou de Laâge
Jeanne
Giorgio Colangeli
Pietro
Antonio Folletto
Paolo
Domenico Diele
Giorgio
Corinna Locastro
Rosa
The Wait Reviews
RogerEbert.com
Susan Wloszczyna
What Messina lacks in substance in his storytelling, he mostly makes up with raw feelings. We come to care through our own powers of observation, and that might be enough.
San Francisco Chronicle
Mick LaSalle
"L'Attesa" - also known as "The Wait" - is atmospheric and moody, serious and full of portent; and if it weren't so good, it would probably be unbearable.
Seattle Times
Moira MacDonald
We watch Binoche's face, in eloquent, mesmerizing close-up; pain and grief engulf her expression like water flooding into a still pool. She has few words. She doesn't need them.
Washington Post
Stephanie Merry
The lead actresses, like the story, work in subtle ways. There's plenty of potency in small gestures, anecdotes and shared glances.
AV Club
Mike D'Angelo
What should be the movie's emotional core gets frittered away in mind games.
Slant Magazine
Christopher Gray
It's bedecked with religious themes and iconography that add up to little more than gorgeous window-dressing.
Chicago Reader
Leah Pickett
Piero Messina keeps his simple story, loosely based on two plays by Luigi Pirandello, muted and equivocal.
Los Angeles Times
Katie Walsh
The film is a moody and lyrical contemplation of grief and the connections that can be found within the void of loss.
New York Times
A.O. Scott
The performances are vivid and moving, but there is ultimately less to this well-made, impeccably acted film than meets the eye. Its meticulousness is to some degree a flaw, an evasion of nearly every variety of human messiness.
NPR
Mark Jenkins
A visually powerful, impeccably acted mood piece.
Village Voice
Melissa Anderson
[Binoche] somehow makes even her long stretches of silence ring clamorously; her minimalist gestures are always maximized and engorged. Binoche's hushed histrionics, though, are of a piece with the fruity portentousness of L'Attesa ...
Variety
Peter Debruge
Messina has further developed his ability to deliver a stunning sensory experience, though the treatment feels inadequate for such lean material.
Hollywood Reporter
Boyd van Hoeij
This is the kind of Catholic melodrama in which the conceit of having a mother mourn her son alone, and Jeanne, standing in for the faithful, eagerly awaits her beloved's return on Easter Sunday, is too beautiful to resist.
Newcity
Ray Pride
for those who study its surfaces, there is breath and wind and wonder in its Sicilian settings and its human shape atop its blunt Christian symbolism. And across Binoche's features, there is life and time itself.
EricDSnider.com
Eric D. Snider
Messina directs the melancholic story with artful delicacy, turning sorrow and pity into something sublime, right down to the heartbreaking final shot.
Eye for Film
Jennie Kermode
It's a contemplative, melancholy work which hints at a semi-religious ecstasy rooted in the mundane and kept just out of reach.
Spirituality & Practice
Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat
A dark and intense probe of deep loss and the often surprising ways in which individuals choose to mourn.
Cinemalogue
Todd Jorgenson
Despite its intimacy, the film doesn't generate much emotional resonance.
Brooklyn Magazine
Benjamin Mercer
Messina doesn't aim for straight realism, soaking his stylized film in slow motion and religious iconography. But the human behavior on display is hard to credit regardless.
Film Journal International
Chris Barsanti
L'Attesa makes its audience wait but without enough of a reason for them to want to.
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