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Writer/director Javier Fesser has based his film on the case of Alexia Gonzalez-Barros, a devoutly Catholic Spanish girl whose ‘exemplary’...
Writer/director Javier Fesser has based his film on the case of Alexia Gonzalez-Barros, a devoutly Catholic Spanish girl whose ‘exemplary’ hospital death in 1985 at the age of 14 has become the focus of a cult of sainthood. Fesser is as transfixed as any true believer by the ‘inspiring’ spectacle of a lively young girl – 11-year-old Camino – going happily to her death. It's her effect on those who surround her, beginning with her pious mother (Carme Elias), that renders him livid. While they urge Camino to give thanks for every new setback sent to test her beatitude, Fesser revels with her in an imaginative world where the school production of Cinderella and the boy playing Prince Charming occupy much more space than God or the Devil. (Source: NZ International Film Festival)
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77 %1,147 reviewsAudience score rating
"Cinematic excess is harnessed to savagely entertaining satirical effect in Javier Fesser's dazzling, idiosyncratic "Camino," which manages to mix styles and genres without losing its way."
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Variety
Variety"The oddly perverse lives that are twisted out of shape by the extremes of Christian belief systems are sometimes the stuff of which saints are made, and young Camino's is such a life."
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Urban Cinefile
Urban Cinefile"In ruminating about the possibility of an unjust God it is far closer to reverent than sacrilegious. In any case it's an unusual, thought-provoking and handsome film."
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New Zealand Herald
New Zealand Herald"A daring, compulsively watchable melodrama against religious fundamentalism."
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Hollywood Reporter
Hollywood ReporterCamino (2008) | Details
- Rating
- M, contains offensive language, content that may disturb
- Runtime
- 143
- Genre
- Drama
- Country of origin
- Spain
