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.
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,
3 Sep 2013
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,
3 Sep 2013
fresh:
a curiously effective coming-of-age tale
– Jordan Hoffman,
New York Daily News,
6 Sep 2013
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,
6 Sep 2013
fresh:
In the complexly stoic Martelli and masterfully craggy, haunted Hauer, an alluringly opaque pas de deux of loss and uncertainty is wonderfully realized.