Things You Can Tell Just By Looking At Her 2000

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Stephanie Zacharek, Salon.com: What does it say when a picture like Rodrigo Garcia's lovingly detailed Things You Can Tell Just by Looking at Her, which won the first-time writer-director a prize at Cannes last year, doesn't make it to theaters in this country? Read more

Mick LaSalle, San Francisco Chronicle: For every moment that sags, there are three or four that stand out as the kind of thing we never get to see in movies. Read more

TIME Magazine: If the stories sometimes use Creative Writing 101 devices (like a quasi-prophetic homeless woman), the total effect is as spare and haunting as the film's arid, beautifully shot setting. Read more

Geoff Andrew, Time Out: Garcia excels at eliciting strong performances throughout and maintaining a consistent mood poised delicately between wry comedy and more serious contemplation of contemporary American female lives. Read more

Todd McCarthy, Variety: A collection of five femme-oriented vignettes that are not intricately linked dramatically but overlap characters, this observant, emotionally acute drama is distinguished by a pronounced poetic sensibility in its writing and visual style. Read more