Review of Hide Your Smiling Faces (2014) by Tim H — 04 Mar 2016

Flat, half artsy film about childloss and childhood. Kids are in the centre here, most scenes are without adults. Everything is quite hidden and it's not easy to predict endings of scenes.

Things move slow, sometimes with a stunning score, often with stunning images.

The tone and the sharp naturalistic images is a big plus - the cinematography was really good. Interesting edit with the flashes, and the short playtime does the film well.

Innocence and guilt, grieving and hate - this is very real and quite dark. At times left very open for the viewer.

"The Tree of Life" comes to mind, but much shorter. There are few answers here as well, just many dead animals.

6.5 out of 10 food que tricks.