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Ága

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Ága

Released Sep 4, 2019

1h 36m

Drama

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An elderly reindeer hunter and his wife live in the icy north. When she senses that she is dying, the wife longs to talk about their daughter who left home to work in a faraway diamond mine, but her husband refuses to talk about her.

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Tom Long

Detroit News

There is a balance of isolation and expanse in the film "Aga" that cannot be feigned, a sense of the enormity of existence measured against the fragile nature of single lives. The result is both wondrous and chilling.

Rated: B+

Nov 21, 2019

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Amy Nicholson

FilmWeek (LAist)

You [get] such a sense of place here. It's a really striking film.

Oct 4, 2019

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Kenneth Turan

Los Angeles Times

A small gem of focused filmmaking, "Ága" tells a minimal story so beautifully it holds us completely.

Sep 26, 2019

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Dennis Harvey

48 Hills

Aga is best experienced as a sort of visual poem commemorating a culture that may soon be reduced to a historical back-chapter.

Oct 21, 2020

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Dennis Schwartz

Dennis Schwartz Movie Reviews

An exceptional emotionally moving spiritual drama about an older Inuit couple trying to keep their traditional ways while dealing with isolation issues in the frozen tundra.

Rated: A-

Feb 26, 2020

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Kelly Vance

East Bay Express

Ága is a subtle yet unmistakable reminder that there are thousands, even millions of stories in the world that have almost nothing to do with anything electronic.

Nov 20, 2019

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dave d

Vividly scored and mouth watering to look at 'Ága' doesn't have much on the page (maybe a handful of pages of dialogue), but it makes up for it in scintillating beauty. Does it overcome the imbalance? That will be up to you in this Bulgarian drama film. It's soft and subtle and full of nuance, but the finish just didn't connect with me. There wasn't enough charter development for me to care about the ending and that's why it's a firmly on the fence feeling of a film possibly didn't need subtitles or dialogue to get a similar if not better result. Final Score: 6.2/10

Rated 3 out of 5 stars

03/31/23

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Audience Member

Beautiful, engrossing and touching.

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

02/16/23

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razvan p

nice ending. -dont know why they make em so fat. they didnt eat carbs..

Rated 3 out of 5 stars

03/31/23

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Good acting, beautiful scenery, but I feel it lacked important storytelling elements. Instead it's focus is mainly on nice landscape shot. Nevertheless, after the essentially non-existent 2nd act, the end provided a nice theme, and a sad conclusion. 3/5 *.

Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars

02/03/23

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Audience Member

I liked it. It was pretty sc

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

02/08/23

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Beautifully filmed, authentic performances and a director who allowed the landscape and physical performances to tell a great deal of the emotional story of reindeer herders whose children have drifted away, who see the end of their way of life, and who prepare for that end with nobility and grace.

Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars

02/25/23

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Synopsis

An elderly reindeer hunter and his wife live in the icy north. When she senses that she is dying, the wife longs to talk about their daughter who left home to work in a faraway diamond mine, but her husband refuses to talk about her.

Director: Milko Lazarov
Producer: Veselka Kiryakova
Screenwriter: Simeon Ventsislavov, Milko Lazarov
Distributor: Big World Pictures
Production Co: 42film, ZDF/Arte, Big World Pictures, Arizona Films, Red Carpet
Genre: Drama
Release Date (Theaters): Sep 4, 2019, Limited
Release Date (Streaming): Mar 31, 2020
Box Office (Gross USA): $35.2K
Runtime: 1h 36m
Aspect Ratio: Scope (2.35:1)

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