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Ciao

Every ending has a new beginning

2008 · 1h 27m · R Drama, Romance
Directed by Yen Tan

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Overview

A man learns that his late friend had a secret online lover who is on the way from Italy.

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Rotten

In Yen Tan's glacially paced movie (every shot is relentlessly symmetrical), the actors are squares in graph-paper compositions.

Carrie Rickey, Philadelphia Inquirer
Fresh

Yen Tan's Ciao is a revelation, a minimalist work of maximum effect. It is determinedly understated and consistently expressive, beautifully composed yet never studied.

Kevin Thomas, Los Angeles Times
Fresh

It's made on the smallest of budgets and features awkward if sincere performances, yet Yen Tan's film still manages to strike a series of plangent emotional truths about speaking one's heart and moving on.

Ty Burr, Boston Globe
Rotten

Ciao moves at a snail's pace. It feels long even at its abbreviated length.

Ruthe Stein, San Francisco Chronicle
Rotten

The story is so minimal that it almost doesn't exist.

V.A. Musetto, New York Post

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