Review of Turtles Can Fly (2004) by Anthony Lane for New Yorker — 01 Feb 2005
Turtles Can Fly has little space for mawkishness, and the kids are far too cussed to be cute. It is, in every sense, the more immediate achievement: it hits and hurts the eyes (the rainy days are lousy enough, but the skies of royal blue, above such grief, feel especially insulting), and it also seems to bleed straight out of the headlines.
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This review of Turtles Can Fly (2004) was written by Anthony Lane and published by New Yorker on 01 Feb 2005.
Turtles Can Fly has generally received very positive reviews.
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