Io e te 2012

Keith Staskiewicz, Entertainment Weekly: The movie is slight but observant and not nearly as maestro-batory as some of Bertolucci's other work. Read more

Farran Smith Nehme, New York Post: It's a tender film with great affection for these two souls; but it's also slight and formulaic, with persistent off-key notes, like the youngsters' 1970s-'80s taste in music. Read more

Ignatiy Vishnevetsky, AV Club: An underwhelming coming-of-age fable that skirts around its own lurid undertones. Read more

Ty Burr, Boston Globe: The film's a treat to watch, with luxuriant camerawork by Fabio Cianchetti and a gorgeous, intimate score by Franco Piersanti. Read more

J. R. Jones, Chicago Reader: The defining emotion here... is a characteristic warmth toward -- and envy of -- young people coming into bloom. Read more

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Tomas Hachard, NPR: Mostly what's missing in Me and You, what drains it of insight and resonance, is a sense of the world outside of Lorenzo's apartment building. Read more

Graham Fuller, New York Daily News: Bertolucci depicts Olivia's ordeal explicitly and the siblings' bonding tenderly. He makes eloquent use of the claustrophobic set. Read more

Stephen Holden, New York Times: Lorenzo, the bratty 14-year-old protagonist of Bernardo Bertolucci's "Me and You," is the quintessence of flailing adolescent angst. Read more

Geoff Pevere, Globe and Mail: An intimate, miniature and subterranean coming-of-age drama ... Read more

Peter Howell, Toronto Star: There's something oddly endearing about Me and You, a minor work from the master filmmaker Bernardo Bertolucci. Read more

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Calum Marsh, Village Voice: Bertolucci, despite his obvious affection for Lorenzo, can't help but seem out of touch, and his hero looks and sounds less like a modern-day teen than an old man's wistful idea of one. Read more

Bilge Ebiri, New York Magazine/Vulture: Me and You has the reflection and patience of age, and the fleet-footed energy of youth. Read more

Michael O'Sullivan, Washington Post: Though the setting is a retreat from the world, where not terribly much happens, within its confines Lorenzo gets an eye-opener about both human frailty and interconnectedness, courtesy of someone even more troubled than he is. Read more