Corpo celeste: Press reviews

'Rich, heady filmmaking that employs small strokes on a huge canvas'

At Cannes: 'Grittily real but somehow dreamlike at the same time, coming of age tale Corpo Celeste is a quietly impressive feature debut for documentary maker Alice Rohrwacher'

'Rohrwacher is a talent to watch.'

At Cannes: 'Minor tonal inconsistencies are overcome by this intimate tale's naturalistic thesping and loose lensing style'

'a subtle, closely observed coming-of-age story'

'densely observed, transparently personal and autobiographical... An accomplished debut'

'a deeply strange meditation on faith and identity'

'There are moments that suggest the director might do something better next time'

'‘Corpo Celeste' might lack the subtlety of feeling of last year's ‘Love Like Poison', a similar-ish film by the young French director Katell Quillévéré. But it's an accomplished debut: a coming-of-age for its director, perhaps, as much as Marta.'

'Neither lights a fuse to our brains or hearts'

'A sensitive unveiling of the moral and religious codes confronting adolescence'