Variously relaxed, apprehensive, or relieved, the fractured gestures of a woman and a baby are played backward and forward, frame by frame, like a musical phrase. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2014.
Reviews
Micitype
Pretty Good
Skunkyrate
Gripping story with well-crafted characters
InformationRap
This is one of the few movies I've ever seen where the whole audience broke into spontaneous, loud applause a third of the way in.
Yazmin
Close shines in drama with strong language, adult themes.