The Vessel
Is a miracle just a tragedy, narrowly avoided by chance?
Is a miracle just a tragedy, narrowly avoided by chance?
Drama
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2016
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Ten years after a tsunami destroyed a small-town elementary school with all the children inside, a young man builds a mysterious structure out of the school's remains, setting the town aflame with passions long forgotten.
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Rated:
PG-13
Runtime:
86 min
Release date:
15 Sep 2016
Country:
US, PR
Languages:
Spanish, English
Budget:
$5,000,000
Revenue:
$0
Awards:
N/A
Top Critics Reviews
fresh:
Whatever his influences, Quintana has made his own, fine thing: a quietly powerful depiction of the what is required to rekindle hope in the hopeless.
– Matthew Lickona,
San Diego Reader,
21 Sep 2016
fresh:
A modest, but not maudlin, parable of hope about mustering the strength to vigorously plunge again into life's uncertainties after a devastating loss.
– Andy Webster,
New York Times,
15 Sep 2016
fresh:
It's a strange brew: stark yet beautiful, urgent yet dreamlike.
– Gary Goldstein,
Los Angeles Times,
15 Sep 2016
fresh:
Quintana's emphasis on Jungian dream logic gives his otherwise spartan parable a compelling mythic dimension.
– Simon Abrams,
Village Voice,
15 Sep 2016
fresh:
This muted, moving small-scale tale of sorrow and faith will strike a chord with both the churchgoing crowd and aficionados of Malick's contemplative, theologically predisposed cinema.
– Nick Schager,
Variety,
15 Sep 2016