Bad Hair (Pelo Malo)

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item number:  6C82R
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DVD-R Details

  • Run Time: 1 hours, 33 minutes
  • Video: Color
  • Encoding: Region 0 (Worldwide)
  • Released: August 18, 2015
  • Originally Released: 2014
  • Label: Global Lens

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User Ratings: 466
Rating: 4/5 -- Writer-director Mariana Rondón offers a striking new twist on mother-son relationships. Full Review
Time Out
Jan 26, 2015
Rating: B+ -- 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. Full Review
Detroit News
Feb 27, 2015
Rating: 3/5 -- Rondón has plenty of important and harsh things to say about social constructs, hypocrisy and maternal tough love. Full Review
Irish Times
Feb 13, 2015
Rating: 4/5 -- With two combustible lead performances and a vibrant representation of the high-rise life among Venezuela's working poor, Rondón leads an assured dance through universal themes of poverty, family and sexuality.
Little White Lies
Jan 29, 2015
Rating: 3/5 -- The director Mariana Rondón elicits a moving and unaffected performance from Lange as the boy desperate to please his mother even as he realises how much his behaviour vexes her. Full Review
Independent (UK)
Jan 29, 2015
Rating: 3/5 -- A quietly perceptive work that teases out insights without undue strain. Full Review
Guardian
Jan 29, 2015
Rating: 3/5 -- An imperfect yet endearing portrait of the complex sentiment that met the end of Chávez's rule in Venezuela, this affectionately articulated adolescent drama manages to take a few caustic swipes at the society that surrounds it. Full Review
CineVue
Apr 4, 2019

Description by OLDIES.com:

Nine-year-old Junior lives in the chaotic city of Caracas with his haggard, out-of-work single mother and baby brother. Fixated on his appearance, Junior is convinced that his mother would love him more if he was able to tame the stubbornly curly hair -- or bad hair -- he inherited from his absent father. But as he grows increasingly obsessed with his hair, his mother, in turn, finds him too difficult to handle -- and a showdown looms. Bad Hair is an official selection of the prestigious, award-winning Global Lens Collection presented by the Global Film Initiative. In Spanish, with English subtitles.
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Product Info

  • UPC: 889290178626
  • Shipping Weight: 0.27/lbs (approx)
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