Incannerax What a waste of my time!!!

Huievest Instead, you get a movie that's enjoyable enough, but leaves you feeling like it could have been much, much more.

GarnettTeenage The film was still a fun one that will make you laugh and have you leaving the theater feeling like you just stole something valuable and got away with it.

Bob This is one of the best movies I’ve seen in a very long time. You have to go and see this on the big screen.

losindiscretoscine Awarded with the prize "un certain regard" at the Cannes Film Festival, Michel Franco's second film deals with a social problem largely present in cinema: school bullying in the digital age. The shooting and the framing, specially the fix off-camera shots, as well as the long silences, immerse the public into the deepness of Alejandra's emotions (superbly played by Tessa Ia). Rough, bitter and cold, the harassment scenes come one after another and we enter a kind of vicious circle in which freedom does not exist. Any type of rationality, understanding or communication are in vain in this compulsory contemplation of violence whose origin is unknown by the victim and, maybe, even by the aggressors. The lack of communication and the sobriety of the photography provide more realism to the movie. Finally, the long sequence shot at the ending enhances the beauty and coldness of the whole. With "After Lucia", Michel France offers at the same time a pessimist but realistic and universal vision of the world, in which a simple action in the social media can make a durable impact in anyone's life. Full review on our blog Los Indiscretos : https://losindiscretos.org

clewis2666 A well made film, technically, but I found the story unbelievable. Alejandra is a new girl in a Mexican school, still grieving for her recently deceased mother. She soon makes the serious mistake of having sex with a handsome boy, who videos the event, with her knowledge, and then, without her knowledge, causes the video to be sent round the school. Charming!.Thereafter the bullying is ceaseless. My complaint is this: what no other reviewer, I think, has pointed out is that in all this class of school children and their horrifically escalating violence towards the meekly submitting Alejandra, not one of them shows for one moment any decent human feeling for the girl. Some reviewers tell us that this sort of wholesale 'everyone against one child' bullying happens all the time. I don't believe it.The ironic ending is powerful (suitable for a Greek tragedy), but not original.

chapelanalexis In an early scene of the movie, a grieving husband suddenly bursts into tears while cooking. His 17-year-old daughter is with him in the house, but prefers to stay away. The sight of her father crying, which deeply moves her, leaves a authority void in her life that will define her behavior as things unravel at her new school. The relationship between Alejandra and her father is of deep love, but too many things are left unspoken, maybe precisely because each one thinks it is his duty to protect the other. But at its seething heart, After Lucia is about the abject cruelty of the human being, and more specifically of teenagers. The acts portrayed soon become monstrous,and the issues raised are only too real. Unfortunately, the ensemble lacks cohesion, and leaves many questions unanswered about the characters and the plot. Moreover, the emotional frigidness of the film, desisting any sentimentalism, may be annoying to some. The camera seems to shun the characters, and consequently never gets close to them.The film is saved by Tessa Ia Gonzalez, you embodies a scarred teenager. The scary intensity of her gaze, at once eerily serene and seething with mute terrors, will stick long in your minds. Even if confusing, After Lucia packs a hard emotional wallop and have proved to be, alongside with American indie Compliance, one of the most disturbing sit in recent memory.

adthuurvangils After Lucia creates unbearable levels of tension, and you may think you know how the story will develop the director has a different idea. The movie continues with uninterrupted shots. The film opens inside a car, establishes Roberto's state of mind, trying to cope from his grief due to the death of his wife. So again, a death person explains all the levels of emotion of which the characters are build on, a simple cliché trick too often is being used in Cinema these days. On the other hand the most beautiful idea of the film is stolen from a short film that already was presented at Cannes in 2009. C'est gratuit pour les filles by Marie Amachoukeli-Barsacq and Claire Burger is even a better film in my opinion, avoiding the cliché so called loved film festival formula of which jury members so much love. A formula as one we are able to say in Hollywood films. Long shots, poor dialogue, fixed shots etc. Happily Rodriguez avoids main characters walking through nature - as too many art-house filmmakers today have copied from the Lisandro Alonso. But although all these frustrations that I had, the film is beautiful well made and totally an big audience worth. Amen