The Future

2013

1h 34m

Drama

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80%

15 Reviews

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250+ Ratings

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Bianca (Manuela Martelli) initiates a sexual relationship with a blind former B-movie star (Rutger Hauer) so her friends can rob him.

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A predictable movie which depicts a depressing Rome. The storyline is weak, and really leads nowhere. Rutger Hauer performance though, albeit short, is remarkable.

Rated 1.5 out of 5 stars

02/23/23

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Basada en "Una Novelita Lumpen" de Bolaño, este melodrama italiano-chileno parte de una premisa prometedora y naufraga cuando su directora atrapada en sus propios guiños estilísticos es incapaz de decidirse entre cerrar la trama o escapar vía una nebulosa alegoría filosófica.

Rated 2 out of 5 stars

02/20/23

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A slow Italian drama worth watching for the sexy Martelli, and a ghostly Hauer.

Rated 3 out of 5 stars

01/21/23

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Scherson's style is at once both gripping and unpretentious, leaving us with broken portraits of broken people. The lack of a classical climax only further bolsters the overall theme: waking reality always pales in comparison to the idyllic dream we all hold onto - that somehow we can go back and change the past, that somehow what we experience everyday cannot possibly be real.

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

02/02/23

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http://www.clevelandmovieblog.com/2014/01/il-futuro-january-4th-and-5th-at.html

Rated 3 out of 5 stars

02/27/23

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I would be interested in seeing this.

Rated 4 out of 5 stars

02/14/23

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Alicia Scherson

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Manuela Martelli

Bianca

Rutger Hauer

Maciste

Nicolas Vaporidis

Libio

Luigi Ciardo

Tomas

Alessandro Giallocosta

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Robert Abele

Los Angeles Times

In the complexly stoic Martelli and masterfully craggy, haunted Hauer, an alluringly opaque pas de deux of loss and uncertainty is wonderfully realized.

Rated: 3.5/5

Oct 24, 2013

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Noel Murray

The Dissolve

Il Futuro is a playful, soulful movie, affecting because it's populated by lost children who can somehow sense they're in a movie.

Rated: 4/5

Oct 24, 2013

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Jeannette Catsoulis

New York Times

Ms. Scherson's style - backed wholeheartedly by the cool cinematography of Ricardo de Angelis - may value mood over information, but it's the perfect vehicle for a portrait of two damaged souls grasping for a security they no longer possess.

Rated: 4/5

Sep 6, 2013

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Nicholas Bell

IONCINEMA.com

While intriguing, and at moments, striking, there's an unfortunate distance from the events and characters in Scherson's film, and an undeniable indifference to what's unfolding before us.

Aug 23, 2019

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Jamie S. Rich

Oregonian

There are some interesting plot points and decent performances, particularly from Martelli, but the ending doesn't really bring Scherson's ideas together in an impactful way.

Rated: 2/5

Nov 14, 2013

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Travis Hopson

Examiner.com

One can choose to indulge in the sci-fi flights of fancy seeding Alicia Scherson's Il Futuro (The Future), or become engrossed in its mercurial, hypnotic theme of sexual discovery.

Rated: 3.5/5

Nov 11, 2013

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Synopsis

Bianca (Manuela Martelli) initiates a sexual relationship with a blind former B-movie star (Rutger Hauer) so her friends can rob him.

Director: Alicia Scherson
Screenwriter: Alicia Scherson
Genre: Drama
Original Language: Italian
Release Date (Streaming): Mar 4, 2014
Box Office (Gross USA): $14.0K
Runtime: 1h 34m
Sound Mix: Dolby Digital
Aspect Ratio: Flat (1.85:1)

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