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Summer 1993

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Six-year-old Frida looks on in silence as the last objects from her recently deceased mother's apartment in Barcelona are placed in boxes. Although her aunt, uncle and younger cousin welcome her with open arms, Frida finds it hard to forget her mother and adapt to her new home in the Catalan countryside.
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Summer 1993 (Estiu 1993) finds writer-director Carla Simón drawing on personal memories to create a thoughtful drama elevated by outstanding work from its young leads.

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Nell Minow AWFJ.org 10/12/2021
The intimacy of the story-telling here is deeply moving. Director Carla Simon created space for performances of truly extraordinary naturalism from everyone in the cast, especially the two young girls. Go to Full Review
Leah Pickett Chicago Reader 09/25/2018
Refreshingly, Simón's take on the "summer that changed everything" movie is delicate and unsentimental, earning an emotional response simply by exploring how a child interprets loss from the child's perspective and at the child's pace. Go to Full Review
David Stratton The Australian 08/03/2018
4/5
...a wonderfully honest and gracefully directed insight into the world of children. Go to Full Review
Kate Saccone Vague Visages 12/12/2023
This is a cinematic autobiography that feels both grounded in personal history and expanded upon and imagined. Go to Full Review
Farah Cheded A Good Movie To Watch 07/26/2023
90/100
This stunning debut from Catalan director Carla Simón is a deeply affecting immersion into the unexpected ways grief colors a young life. Go to Full Review
Sandie Angulo Chen AWFJ.org 10/12/2021
This is a painful and powerful film about grief, fitting in, and family. Go to Full Review
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Kana J Dec 11 Am I going to get screened for giving 5 stars for a movie I've never even seen before? See more charming m 07/13/2023 Moving, outstanding gut-punch of a film..... Wonderful acting to a cracking script adds to a helluva directing debut from Carla Simon. See more 12/08/2021 Carla Simón's debut film is wise, not only in cinematographic terms but in her understanding of the human being, specially - and more complicated- of childhood. Accompanied by her surprising child interpreters, the director immerses us in the story of Frida, a girl who lost her parents to AIDS and who is full of questions, sadness and, of course, anger. What makes this film transcendent despite its simplicity is the subtlety with which the director tells the story, without the need for clichés and unnecessary resources, wasted by use, such as sad music or incessant tearing, shows that based on of small details and very strong feelings it is possible to innovate in the coming-of-age. What I like the most is that the director is smart enough to know that children are not innocent and can plan, manipulate and take revenge, although she does not judge her little protagonist for it. See more 09/17/2020 I felt I was not watching a movie. I was watching a summer in some people's real life. It reminded me of what it was to be a child and be confused, sad and angry, and to lose a loved one to death at that age. It also felt very familiar to me because I left my hometown, which is in Spain, at 5 years old. The ending really touched me. The crying was inevitable. See more chris k 07/30/2020 'Estiu 1993' is an exquisite film: not just because of its superb acting, its lovely ambience, or its brilliant shots; its beauty lies at the way it explores the feelings of a child - that of jealousy, shame, sadness, confusion, enthusiasm and more. It does not treat the child as an immature human, as unimportant, as a simple-to-understand doll. No, 'Estiu 1993' explores - perhaps not fully, but this might be impossible - the children's feelings in a rarely-seen respectful and earnest way. See more andy h 01/11/2020 It's a gentle, quiet, light, prestige, intimate, sensual, adorable, and time-standing indie gem that foreign film buffs Must experience. See more Read all reviews
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Synopsis Six-year-old Frida looks on in silence as the last objects from her recently deceased mother's apartment in Barcelona are placed in boxes. Although her aunt, uncle and younger cousin welcome her with open arms, Frida finds it hard to forget her mother and adapt to her new home in the Catalan countryside.
Director
Carla Simón
Producer
Valérie Delpierre
Screenwriter
Carla Simón
Distributor
Oscilloscope Laboratories
Production Co
Instituto de la Cinematografía y de las Artes Audiovisuales
Genre
Drama
Original Language
Catalan
Release Date (Theaters)
May 25, 2018, Limited
Release Date (Streaming)
Aug 7, 2018
Box Office (Gross USA)
$178.7K
Runtime
1h 38m
Sound Mix
Dolby Atmos
Aspect Ratio
Flat (1.85:1)
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