Nervous Translation

2017

1h 30m

Drama

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11 Reviews

A child who prefers to be by herself also longs to be heard.

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Matt Turner

Little White Lies

An intelligent and idiosyncratic film that lands on the skin, then lingers in the mind.

Rated: 4/5

Apr 5, 2019

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Peter Bradshaw

Guardian

As a slice of life, as a direct transcription of a child's-eye view of the world, it is intriguingly and lovingly detailed.

Rated: 3/5

Apr 4, 2019

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Clarence Tsui

Hollywood Reporter

Tracking a second-grader's eccentric efforts to perceive the chaotic circumstances whirling around her, Shireen Seno has teased a piece of contemplative cinema out of a restless child's play.

Mar 19, 2018

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Panos Kotzathanasis

Asian Movie Pulse

Children perceive the world in a very different fashion that grownups do, and this is one of the main points of the film, as indicated by the surrealist element that briefly appears in the story.

Dec 1, 2019

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MaryAnn Johanson

Flick Filosopher

Shireen Seno's portrait of a remarkably imaginative and self-contained child at a specifically 1980s Filipino moment is full of both charming whimsy and a delicately observed, melancholy universality.

Rated: 4/5

Apr 16, 2019

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Hannah Paveck

Another Gaze

Nervous Translation continually reminds us of the limits and partiality of its child perspective, even as it presents glimpses of Val's own interiority.

Apr 2, 2019

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Shireen Seno

Director

Nafa Hilario-Cruz

Actor

Jana Agoncillo

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Shireen Seno

Screenwriter

Ronald Arguelles

Executive Producer

John Torres

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Synopsis

A child who prefers to be by herself also longs to be heard.

Director: Shireen Seno
Producer: John Torres
Screenwriter: Shireen Seno
Production Co: Cinema One Originals
Genre: Drama
Original Language: Filipino
Runtime: 1h 30m