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11 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 88RogerEbert.comGodfrey CheshireRogerEbert.comGodfrey CheshireUltimately, Futuro Beach is a film about displacement and identity, love and its costs. Its considerable satisfactions, though, come mainly from the way the story is told, which spells nothing out, and in fact is so reticent that the viewer is constantly drawn into the creation of meaning.
- 80Village VoiceSteve EricksonVillage VoiceSteve EricksonFuturo Beach is as strong on texture as narrative. It's full of sensual images.
- 80The New York TimesJeannette CatsoulisThe New York TimesJeannette CatsoulisBalancing its abstract storytelling with commanding visuals (by the gifted cinematographer Ali Olcay Gözkaya), Futuro Beach explores liberation and reinvention, the tug of familiarity versus the allure of the foreign.
- 75San Francisco ChronicleSan Francisco ChronicleFuturo Beach is part of a welcome wave of European and South American films that center on gay characters, yet deal with universal themes and offer a certain sensibility that would please any art-house enthusiast.
- 60The Hollywood ReporterDavid RooneyThe Hollywood ReporterDavid RooneyKarim Ainouz has always been more attentive as a filmmaker to the creation of atmospheric and emotional texture than to story or character, and that bias inhibits this visually seductive drama from fully engaging beyond the aesthetic level.
- 50Slant MagazineClayton DillardSlant MagazineClayton DillardIt masks depleted drama under a progression of long takes, various music cues, and a three-chapter structure that grows successively tedious.
- 50The DissolveMike D'AngeloThe DissolveMike D'AngeloThe images are gorgeous, but they’re gorgeous in a void; unlike in The Silver Cliff, the intended connection to the people who inhabit them is missing. Possibly Aïnouz let autobiographical impulses lead him astray. Or maybe he’s an avant-garde filmmaker at heart.
- 40Los Angeles TimesMartin TsaiLos Angeles TimesMartin TsaiIf director-co-writer Karim Aïnouz has set out to depict soulless gay lives, he has more than succeeded.
- 40Time Out LondonTrevor JohnstonTime Out LondonTrevor JohnstonFuturo Beach is realised with such undeniable visual panache that the sheer beauty of the coastal landscapes or the moody images of urban isolation cast their own spell. But without much emotional connection to the central couple, it’s all a bit academic. Exquisitely lovely, confoundingly dreary.