Thursday Till Sunday

2012

1h 36m

Drama

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18 Reviews

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50+ Ratings

As she and her family embark on a short vacation, a Chilean teenager slowly comes to the realization that her parents might be splitting up.

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Radheyan Simonpillai

NOW Toronto

Sotomayor's vivid compositions establish environments and spaces tellingly, hinting at the family's history and current state through minor details and gestures, suggesting the bigger picture without ever explaining it.

Rated: 3/5

Jul 25, 2013

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Andrew Schenker

Little White Lies

Sotomayor's movie is more than the sum of its carefully accumulated details.

Rated: 4/5

Apr 4, 2013

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Mike McCahill

Guardian

It's prone to burying its sharper observations under drift, but the performers, working almost in teams, are convincing, and Sotomayor elicits consistently charming responses from Ahumada in particular: bored, wistful, alert to the trouble ahead.

Rated: 3/5

Apr 4, 2013

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Juan Pablo Russo

EscribiendoCine

Chilean cinema has given much to talk about around the world with great films with simple themes but narrated and presented differently. [Full review in Spanish]

Rated: 6/10

Mar 11, 2024

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Adam Lowes

CineVue

May be a little low on drama and incident, but Sotomayor has a way of engaging the viewer throughout the entire journey. This is due, in part, to the terrific turns by the kids, both of whom give lovely, unaffected performances.

Rated: 4/5

Feb 13, 2019

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Chris Knight

National Post

[It] feels as long as its name, with long, mostly silent stretches devoted to staring out the window at the stark, scrubby scenery.

Rated: 2/4

Jul 25, 2013

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Buena película de Dominga Sotomayor, donde acompañaremos a una familia en un viaje al norte de Chile. Durante el trayecto descubriremos un matrimonio quebrado, una difícil situación de una hija entrando a la adolescencia, y a un padre romántico que se niega a asumir sus responsabilidades. Muy interesante en lo estético.

Rated 3 out of 5 stars

01/24/23

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Ana (Giannini) and Papa (Perez-Bannen) wake their two young kids, Lucia (Ahumada) and Manuel (Freifeld), early one Thursday morning and set off from their home in Santiago, Chile. So begins a long weekend trip to the north of the country. At first thrilled with the idea of a family excursion, ten-year-old Lucia slowly begins to realize all may not be well with her parents' relationship as the struggling couple attempt to put on a brave face for their children's benefit. The idea of viewing adult issues from a child's eyes is rarely handled well by film-makers. Usually the child character becomes a vessel for the creator's agenda, often through a crude narrative voice-over, resulting in an unrealistically insightful child. Last year we had two horrific examples of this trend in 'Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close' and 'Beasts of the Southern Wild'. In the past week alone, however, I've seen three examples of how it should be handled. The stunning 'Mud', which I'm temporarily forbidden to review until its May 1st embargo expires, uses a Mark Twain style approach while the otherwise irritating 'Post Tenebras Lux' employs magic realist imagery to convey the confusion of how an infant absorbs the world around them. 'Thursday Till Sunday' is easily the most naturalistic of the three, but it's also the most tedious. Sotomayor's debut employs the 'Tom & Jerry' technique of Spielberg's 'E.T' to convey the perspective of young Lucia. The use of dialogue is fractured, teasing us with snippets of half-heard conversations. While it does suggest the frustration of an inquisitive child's thirst for information, it ultimately becomes equally frustrating for the viewer. Sotomayor literally straps us into the back seat for much of the movie, giving us practically nothing in the way of story or character. It's left to young Ahumada to carry the film, which she does well, but it's too large a burden for a child to carry. After an hour on this journey you'll find yourself subconsciously asking "Are we there yet?"

Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars

01/29/23

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Intelligent filmmaking at its most beautiful. Everyone's childhood was a bit like this in one way or another, a film full of nostalgia, capturing the most precious and character-defining moments in life. Evocative and rewarding.

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

02/23/23

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Dominga Sotomayor

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Santi Ahumada

Lucia

Emiliano Freifeld

Manuel

Paola Giannini

Ana

Francisco Pérez-Bannen

Papá

Jorge Becker

Jorge

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Synopsis

As she and her family embark on a short vacation, a Chilean teenager slowly comes to the realization that her parents might be splitting up.

Director: Dominga Sotomayor
Screenwriter: Dominga Sotomayor
Genre: Drama
Original Language: Spanish
Release Date (Streaming): Apr 17, 2020
Runtime: 1h 36m