Fresh
In the complexly stoic Martelli and masterfully craggy, haunted Hauer, an alluringly opaque pas de deux of loss and uncertainty is wonderfully realized.
Robert Abele, Los Angeles Times
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The Future
Overview
When their parents die, Bianca starts to smoke and Tomas is still a virgin. The orphans explore the dangerous streets of adulthood until Bianca finds Maciste, a retired Mr. Universe, and enters his dark mansion in search of a future.
Director and cast
- Alicia Scherson Director
- Manuela Martelli as Bianca
- Nicolas Vaporidis as Libio
- Luigi Ciardo as Tomas
- Alessandro Giallocosta as Boloñes
- Pino Calabrese as il poliziotto
- Rutger Hauer as Maciste
- Sara Manni as Roman Woman
- Daniela Piperno as operatrice sociale
- Patricia Rivadeneira Cast
- Brando Taccini Cast
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
80%
Tomatometer
Fresh
Ms. Scherson's style - backed wholeheartedly by the cool cinematography of Ricardo de Angelis - may value mood over information, but it's the perfect vehicle for a portrait of two damaged souls grasping for a security they no longer possess.
Jeannette Catsoulis, New York Times
Fresh
a curiously effective coming-of-age tale
Jordan Hoffman, New York Daily News
Fresh
Il Futuro, aptly bereft of actual Italians, teases out the idea of thrown-off foreigners, bridged by fluid identities.
Joshua Rothkopf, Time Out New York
Fresh
Alicia Scherson's enthralling Il Futuro asks the question no one wants to hear: How would you see the world after a personal tragedy?
John Oursler, Village Voice
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