The Year My Parents Went on Vacation
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- Synopsis
- A 12-year-old Brazilian boy who longs to see his team win out over Italy in the 1970 World Cup match finds his entire world turned upside down as his left-wing parents are forced into hiding and he is sent to live with his grandfather in São Paulo's ......
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- Starring
- Michel Joelsas, Germano Haiut, Caio Blat, Daniela Piepszyk, Liliana Castro
- Director(s)
- Cao Hamburger
- Distributor(s)
- City Lights Pictures
- MPAA Rating
- PG
- Runtime
- 104 min.
Critic Reviews
The filmmakers succeed with an unexpected ending. It's as fresh as everything in the movie, which turns out to be about so much more than one youngster's resilience.Read the full review
It really only comes alive in its shots of people in the neighborhood sitting around their television sets. What we're really talking about here is a problem in scope. In Hamburger's film, the world is no bigger than a cup.Read the full review
The performances are charming and convincing, and Mr. Joelsas does a good job of conveying Mauro’s loneliness and confusion as well as his playfulness. The Year My Parents Went on Vacation may not be terribly fresh or original, but its warm, sweet, nostalgic tone is hard to dislike.Read the full review
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