Roots, family, identity.

Rating: 8/10 (11 March 2017)

The beginning of the film is outstanding. The film's emotions make it a really powerful piece. In order to make a proper review to this movie, I have to divide it in two. The first part: It leaves you completely captivated. It's brilliant the way dialogues weren't completely necessary, and when they appeared, they did it in the precise time. Very different from the second part, that appeared of a sudden, in this section the dialogues seemed even forced sometimes. This section is colder. Sadly, the movie loses a lot of strength in the middle, but in the last scenes, the strength and the emotive are back.
The film as a whole contains a lot of remarkable aspects, such as the touching performances, especially the ones by Dev Patel and Nicole Kidman, -which basically saved the second part of the movie from being too soulless and weak compared to the first one- also the beautiful photography and the remarkable soundtrack. It's impossible not to cry with this movie. If you're lucky, it'll touch you deeply the way it did with me. Definitely, it deserved more recognition in the Oscars than La La Land.