DarkBlueAlmostBlack.

"Sufferable in the moment, DarkBlueAlmostBlack immediately evaporates from the mind, a rather anemic, schematic, and impersonal meditation on family ties and self-imposed prisons that ends with a condescending unpacking of its titular metaphor," writes Ed Gonzalez at Slant.

"Elegantly shot by Juan Carlos Gómez, DarkBlueAlmostBlack juggles characters trapped by circumstance and poor choices, trying feebly to free themselves from dead-end lives and low self-esteem," writes Jeannette Catsoulis of "this tender-hearted drama" in the New York Times.

Nathan Lee in the Voice: "Writer-director Daniel Sánchez Arévalo derives his title from the color of the suit Jorge [Quim Gutiérrez] covets - and his ideas about the life of the Madrid working class from: a) Almodóvar; b) Sundance; c) Uranus."

Posted by dwhudson at October 19, 2007 2:21 PM