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Bad Hair
2014 1h 33m
Drama
6.9
95%
69%
66%
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A nine-year-old boy's preening obsession with straightening his hair elicits a tidal wave of homophobic panic in his hard-working mother.
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Directed By
Mariana Rondón
Written By
Mariana Rondón
Studio
Artefactos S.F
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Cast of Bad Hair
Samuel Lange Zambrano
Junior
Samantha Castillo
Marta
Beto Benitez
El Jefe
Nelly Ramos
Carmen (The Grandmother)
María Emilia Sulbarán
Bad Hair Reviews
New York Post
Farran Smith Nehme
The last shot of Zambrano ... is a heartbreaker.
Boston Globe
Peter Keough
Much lies below the surface, and that surface consists in part of on-location shooting of urban desolation that is taken for granted as the characters' lot in life.
Detroit News
Tom Long
There's a sense of being trapped that permeates "Bad Hair" - trapped in your own flesh, trapped in circumstances, trapped in the family you're born into.
Miami Herald
Rene Rodriguez
No matter how dire things may get, Pelo malo argues that hope springs eternal.
AV Club
Mike D'Angelo
Rondn has clearly made precisely the film she intended to make. As downers go, however, it's lacking in catharsis. Life sucks, and then you cave.
RogerEbert.com
Sheila O'Malley
Told in a slow and deliberate manner, with documentary-style realism, "Bad Hair" is not conventional storytelling, but it is all the more effective because of that.
Movie Mezzanine
Monica Castillo
At just 93 minutes, the movie breezes by but is anything but forgettable.
Slant Magazine
Carson Lund
The narrative works through the many contradictions brewing inside its main character in the wake of his personal actualization without ever feeling like a dramatic checklist.
Los Angeles Times
Katie Walsh
The film is anchored by two riveting performances from Castillo and Lange, whose characters are searching for themselves and feeling increasingly desperate as they fail.
Chicago Reader
Ben Sachs
The psychological drama grows organically out of everyday conflict, and an immersive treatment of the housing project where the characters live. This is an accomplished piece of social realist filmmaking, clear-eyed but tender.
New York Times
Stephen Holden
"Bad Hair" is an uncomfortably accurate depiction of a poignant mother-son power struggle in a fatherless family in which each knows how to get under the other's skin.
Village Voice
Stephanie Zacharek
There's plenty of prickly tenderness, for both mother and son, at the heart of Bad Hair.
Willamette Week
Eric Millman
In Mariana Rondon's heart-rending coming-of-age film, individuality stands little chance against the madding crowd of urban Venezuela.
World Socialist Web Site
David Walsh
Some of the film's strongest images are of the massive tenements and the signs of life on the different balconies.
Variety
Jay Weissberg
Mariana Rondon's impressively multilayered drama brings a powerful specificity to the story of a boy and his embittered single mother.
FF2 Media
Brigid Presecky
Mariana Rondón...uses her knowledge and background from Barquisimeto, Venezuela to her advantage, beautifully capturing the setting and making the audience feel as if they are there, experiencing Latin America along with their family.
Hollywood Reporter
David Rooney
This miniaturist mosaic provides tender insight into a complicated mother-son relationship.
Common Sense Media
Andrea Beach
Thought-provoking, troubling drama has explicit sex.
The Playlist
Nikola Grozdanovic
The most honorable objectives in the world can't overrule a blatant attempt at strong-arming emotion.
Shadow and Act
Shadow and Act Staff
Buoyed by instinctive performances (especially the powerful Samantha Castillo as Junior's mother Marta) and an unnerving score, "Bad Hair" may just be this year's foreign sleeper hit.
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