Chaplin’s performance is characterized by a lack of vanity and an almost magical combination of empathy and pathos.
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Village VoiceSerena Donadoni
Village VoiceSerena Donadoni
Guzmán and Cárdenas present this tropical island as both Anne's romantic refuge and Noelí's exploitative landscape, a beautiful, enchanting — and realistic — Eden where snakes are merely snakes.
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Slant MagazineElise Nakhnikian
Slant MagazineElise Nakhnikian
It respects and plumbs the feelings of all three main characters while surfacing the economic, ethnic, cultural, and gender power imbalances in their relationships.
Playing out against a dreamy Caribbean backdrop, Sand Dollars is indeed about dreams, unpicking those of a gracefully aging lady and her young lover with a trembling delicacy and attentiveness.