I was recommended to watch this film because of similarities to The Florida Project. Really happy I was turned on to it. Very reminiscent of Ponette.

A six year old girl deals with the death of her parents and adjusting to a new family. Top notch performances and very strong feature debut film by Carla Simón.

Looks like Oscilloscope will be releasing the film in the States sometime soon. (early 2018)

Mayúsculo ejercicio de recreación de lugares, experiencias y sentimientos.
Carla Simón necesitaba explicarnos su verano de 1993 y ahora podemos afirmar que el cine necesitaba que lo hiciese de esta manera. Desde esa perspectiva, dejando que las piezas encajen mediante minúsculas epifanías, trazando un círculo perfecto alrededor de un desconocido llamado dolor y con tres inmensas actrices afinadas con tesón.
Estiu 1993 es la infancia en toda su complejidad. Es también un testimonio cargado de autenticidad sobre las dinámicas de pertenencia. Es diminuta y espectacular.
Y sin que ningún monstruo visite a nadie.

Durante gran parte de los veranos que viví en los 90, llamé hogar a una pequeña granja en plena entrada de un pueblecito catalán. No os podéis imaginar lo fidedigna que es esta película plasmando cada pequeña idiosincrasia vagamente relacionada con ello.

Lo increíble, aún así; es que es igual de fiel o más plasmando la naturaleza más cruda de la infancia y lo que es enfrentarse por primera vez a la pérdida de un ser querido a través de esos ojos. Pocas veces he visto a alguien tratar ese tema de una forma tan directa y sincera, sin acobardarse en ningún momento ni azucarar situación alguna para el espectador. Y, la verdad, creo que es algo con lo que es inevitable conectar, fueran como fueran nuestros respectivos veranos.

grief isn’t any less painful when told through the eyes of a child. it’s a pain that is so palpable. a loss of innocence. one of the most nuanced, poignant performances i’ve seen from a child actor, on the same level as noah jupe in honey boy & brooklynn prince in the florida project.

me, crying for no reason: what the fuck now I like children

AFI 2017: film #7

quaint, but is that enough? who knows. also i was exhausted during this so who am i to judge

Summer 1993 captures precisely what’s it like to grieve as a child. You’re too young to really explain or even go through the proper emotions, it just feels like a sudden shift in your life that you don’t completely understand and that’s what the film does so well. You slowly learn information, just bits and pieces just as a child would, it constantly feels like you’re missing out on the really important conversations just as a child would. You’re an outsider just as a child is.

56/100

A.V. Club review, in which I spare readers my horror at the realization that people who were small children in 1993 are now old enough to make movies reminiscing about it. I spent that summer working on an indie film myself, alongside friends who were all three years out of college. (It never got released.)

I'm a fucking mess

Summer 1993 beautifully examines the contradictions and impulses of a six-year-old who is learning to deal with the grief of losing her parents without actually knowing what she is dealing with. It does so without being sentimental about it and that makes it such a special film.

Film yang mempesona. Rumit dan sederhana pada saat yang sama.

Rumit, bagaimana Frida belajar menjadi "penyintas" setelah kematian ibu dan harus jauh dari kakek nenek juga bibi yang biasa memanjakannya. Ayah pun tiada. Meski keluarga paman dan bibinya menerimanya, ia tetap merasa asing dan cemburu pada sepupunya, Anna. Mau tak mau aku mencoba memahami Frida yang memberontak dan hampir mencelakai sepupunya.

Sederhana, sebab ternyata setelah merasa nyaman dan diterima, Frida kecil bisa menangis lepas dan bisa menerima kematian ibunya.

I am so sad rn

Desgrana el verano que cambió la vida de Frida, la niña protagonista que deberá adaptarse a un nuevo entorno tras la repentina muerte de su madre.

Un guión con mucha fuerza igual que las interpretaciones del todo el reparto, sobretodo el de las niñas, que en su carisma y en sus juegos infantiles, nos remiten a nuestra propia infancia.
La naturalidad con la que se trata el tema de la muerte, la adaptación a un nuevo hogar, la infancia y la amistad son su fuerte. Una película en la que se respira emoción, nostalgia, tristeza y esperanza.

q bonito q puro y q real ♥️

Bella película, grandes actuaciones.

Quarantine film #3
This is such a realistic film it has been an incredible experience for me to watch it.
It doesn’t feel like it’s a movie at all, and instead, i’m watching a real young girl dealing with grief and death.
The child actors were better than most Hollywood child actors.
It has astonishing visuals, and it is beautiful to watch. It’s extremely slow pace just makes it more realistic, and as a person who has basically lived in a catalan village, this movie portrays its lifestyle perfectly. I could connect to it so much.
One of the best spanish films i’ve ever seen and one of the best indie films of 2017.

took some patience, but well worth it by the (sudden) end. Good grief, literally.

Festival Cine por Mujeres 2020

Not really much to say here; indie movies that follow young kids are pretty hit or miss for me. Personal predilections cannot take away from the effortlessness of the craftsmanship or the subtle brutality of the performances however. If viewers can get past the pacing, they will likely care deeply about the little girl protagonist as most people have little more heart than I do.