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15 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 100Screen DailyAllan HunterScreen DailyAllan HunterThis is a remarkable debut feature; provocative, absorbing and mysterious. There are no easy answers to the big existential questions, just a desire to seek them out with a kind heart and good intentions. In the end you just have to have faith.
- 100The PlaylistMarya E. GatesThe PlaylistMarya E. GatesWinner of the Caméra d’Or for the best first feature film last month at the Cannes Film Festival, writer-director Pham Thien An’s Inside the Yellow Cocoon Shell is a deeply felt three-hour spiritual odyssey about grief in its many forms.
- 93The Daily BeastNick SchagerThe Daily BeastNick SchagerA three-hour drama whose slender story serves as the skeleton for a formally exquisite examination of loss, faith, family, and connection, it's the year’s first masterpiece.
- 91The Film StageLeonardo GoiThe Film StageLeonardo GoiThis is, at its core, the story of a resurrection, spiritual and sensorial; at its most transcendental, Inside the Yellow Cocoon Shell makes Thien’s awakening your own.
- 90The New York TimesAlissa WilkinsonThe New York TimesAlissa WilkinsonPham manages to float existential and spiritual questions into Thien’s consciousness and ours without trying to offer solutions, at least in language.
- 90ColliderChase HutchinsonColliderChase HutchinsonCinema as an art form is made infinitely richer via films like Inside the Yellow Cocoon Shell. As we let it linger in our minds just as the camera does up until one final unbroken shot, you drift somewhere you've never been before and may never be again.
- 88Slant MagazineJake ColeSlant MagazineJake ColeThe protagonist may feel cut off from the world, but the film is deeply in harmony with it.
- It’s the kind of film that steadily trains you in perceiving and eventually becoming lost in its sense of time, to the extent that you can almost forget the presence of the camera even when it is moving. You’re living in the frame with Thien; the timing of the camera and character naturally intertwined.
- 80Wall Street JournalZachary BarnesWall Street JournalZachary BarnesThere’s something singularly fulfilling in a film, like this one, that truly demands that most precious commodity: our attention.