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Liverpool (2009)

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Reviews Counted:8

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Average Rating:7.3/10

Genre: Dramas

US Box Office: $0

Synopsis: Anthology is thrilled to present the NEW YORK THEATRICAL PREMIERE RUN of Lisandro Alonso’s feature LIVERPOOL. Lisandro Alonso, writer-director of LA LIBERTAD and LOS MUERTOS and one of the... Anthology is thrilled to present the NEW YORK THEATRICAL PREMIERE RUN of Lisandro Alonso’s feature LIVERPOOL.

Lisandro Alonso, writer-director of LA LIBERTAD and LOS MUERTOS and one of the key figures of New Argentine Cinema, elevates his austere, meditative style to poetic, provocative new levels with this story of a loner adrift both at sea and in his life. LIVERPOOL follows the story of Farrel, a sailor who, having traveled from one end of the earth to the other, asks the captain of the freighter he works on for permission to go ashore once they reach the port of Ushuala, the southernmost town in Argentina. Farrel wants to return to his birthplace and see if his mother is still alive. Like characters who inhabit other Alonso films -- the woodcutter in LA LIBERTAD and the convict traversing the jungle in LOS MUERTOS -- Farrel is a solitary man. He drinks to oblivion, pays the women he sleeps with, and has no friends. With a head full of dark memories he treks through the endless snow, discovering his mother and a part of himself. In LIVERPOOL, Alonso takes the techniques of observational cinema and invests them with insight and surprisingly wrenching emotion. --© Anthology Archives [More]

Starring: Nieves Cabrera, Giselle Irrazabal

Starring: Nieves Cabrera, Giselle Irrazabal

Director: Lisandro Alonso

Director: Lisandro Alonso
Screenwriter: Lisandro Alonso, Salvador Roselli
Studio: Anthology Archives

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There are no tears, no hugs—not even a gesture of goodbye. Like the weather, the emotions expressed between folks are bitingly cold.

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09/04/09
Matthew Nestel
Matthew Nestel
Boxoffice Magazine

Modest rewards await those willing to be patient with Lisandro Alonso's austere drama.

Full Review Source: New York Daily News | comment Comment
09/04/09
Elizabeth Weitzman
Elizabeth Weitzman
New York Daily News

Patient viewers will be concurrently fascinated and captivated by the stark naturalism, subtleties, attention to detail along with the very atmospheric, oddly haunting visuals.

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09/04/09
Avi Offer
Avi Offer
NYC Movie Guru

comes off as indecisive

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09/03/09
Chris Cabin
Chris Cabin
Filmcritic.com

Although it has its visual pleasures, and there's plenty to admire about his compositions, the journey in Liverpool seems comparatively slight.

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09/03/09
Manohla Dargis
Manohla Dargis
New York Times
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09/03/09
Geoff Andrew
Geoff Andrew
Time Out

Objects have any number of unique symbolic attributes, but their meanings become increasingly and intriguingly malleable through Alonso’s patient, long-take purview.

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09/02/09
Keith Uhlich
Keith Uhlich
Time Out New York

Liverpool opens with a big blast of neo surf, and coasts on that energy for the movie's 84 minutes, ending with a shot of corresponding impact.

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09/01/09
J. Hoberman
J. Hoberman
Village Voice

To Lisandro Alonso's wandering characters, every place they go seems like the edge of the world.

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08/31/09
Fernando F. Croce
Fernando F. Croce
Slant Magazine
 
 
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