Stop the Pounding Heart

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Stop the Pounding Heart

2014

1h 41m

Drama

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The teenage daughter (Sara Carlson) of a goat-farming family develops a bond with a young cowboy (Colby Trichell) in Texas.

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Brad Wheeler

Globe and Mail

03/12/2015

2/4

Minervini places these two non-actors in the same arena and no sparks whatsoever fly. It's a tedious, patience-testing experience that could reward only cinephiles and the curious.

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Tom Long

Detroit News

03/06/2015

B+

Authenticity is the warm blood that pumps through "Stop the Pounding Heart," a low key but mesmerizing look at adolescent awakening in a fundamentalist family.

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A.O. Scott

New York Times

09/18/2014

"Stop the Pounding Heart" transcends both the red state-blue state split and limited, didactic ideas of cinematic realism.

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Nicholas Bell

IONCINEMA.com

09/05/2019

2.5/5

Its objectivity often feels like a grim purveyor of ignorance.

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Jay Kuehner

Cinema Scope

10/10/2017

More than the sum of its avowed influences, Stop the Pounding Heart evidences a supplicant style of filmmaking.

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Amanda Waltz

The Film Stage

06/27/2016

A-

Stop the Pounding Heart becomes a sensitive, lovingly crafted illustration of the relationship between culture, faith, and identity.

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10/03/2015

It was made for critics to revel in I suppose. The film seemed contrived and was overall just unenjoyable. These rednecks rolling around in the dirt and shooting guns were depressing as well as stupid. I did not gather anything of importance being said as a commentary. There are too many films being made.

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08/21/2015

Really should've been a short. There's some great stuff in this, and much of the cinematography is quite beautiful, but there just isn't enough story for a feature-length, and it shows. After the first half-hour, you'll be trying your best to stay awake.

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09/18/2014

Authenticity is the warm blood that pumps through "Stop the Pounding Heart," a low key look at adolescent awakening in a fundamentalist family.

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08/09/2014

The little drama being created by the filmmaker seems to be a little enforced, but it's all about the almost non-judgemental observation of an anti-modern hill-billie farmers family, living 40 miles from me, and coming every weekend to my farmers market next door. Guns, Jesus, home schooling, bullriding, home birth, you get it. Minervini shows us the life beyond that.

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Synopsis

The teenage daughter (Sara Carlson) of a goat-farming family develops a bond with a young cowboy (Colby Trichell) in Texas.

Director: Roberto Minervini
Producer: João Leite, Roberto Minervini, Denise Ping Lee, Luigina Smerilli
Screenwriter: Roberto Minervini, Diego Romero
Distributor: Big World Pictures
Genre: Drama
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Sep 19, 2014, Limited
Release Date (Streaming): Dec 21, 2015
Box Office (Gross USA): $2.5K
Runtime: 1h 41m