The shadow of the early Dardenne brothers' work floats over Mariano Gonzalez’s tough, lean debut Balloons, which fuses a matter-of-fact documentary style with emotional punch in telling the story of a man forced to face up to fatherhood. Entirely eschewing sentimentality and featuring a central character who in his inarticulateness is easier to sympathize with than to like, this is one of those pent-up films where the protagonist cries only once, but when it comes, it's massive, and cathartic for character and audience alike. Both subject matter and treatment are challenging, but Gonzalez’s attentiveness to the truthfulness of the film’s...
- 7/26/2017
- by Jonathan Holland
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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