Phonearl Good start, but then it gets ruined

Executscan Expected more

ChicRawIdol A brilliant film that helped define a genre

Karlee The joyful confection is coated in a sparkly gloss, bright enough to gleam from the darkest, most cynical corners.

bbakabianca Aria is a nine-year-old girl who no one seems to understand or want. Her parent's get a divorce and her older sisters are pampered by either parent, Lucrezia by her dad and Donatina by her mom. Aria is quite literally tossed between both parents, being kicked out of her mom's to go to her dad's then being kicked out of her dad's to go to back to her mom's and all over again. Aria's only friend Angelica seems to be the only one who understands her, but she too turns against her. Giulla Salemo does a great job at portraying a girl who only wants to be loved by her parents. Her actions show the viewer that she is sincerely attempting to win over the hearts of her self-centered parents. Aria does what any detested nine-year-old would do, she tries to impress her parents with her talent, which for her is writing. The story-line made sense, although it neglected to have a more elaborate one that is why I did not give the film ten stars. Also, there was some repetitiveness in the film that wasn't entirely necessary. Furthermore, it was overall an interesting film to watch.

runamokprods Argento has managed to transcend the trappings the ocean of coming of age/awful childhood films to create something odd, funny, sad horrifying, inventive and unique. It's triply impressive because the heroine here is a 'poor little rich girl' – thus making her less automatically sympathetic, and she is clearly rooted in Argento's own childhood growing up with artistic, dramatic and well known parents. And it's very easy for such a personal film to lose its objectivity and simply become a scream at those adults that wounded you as a child. But by playing deftly with black humor and touches of the surreal the film mostly avoids self- pity on one side and the overly familiar on the other. Yes, by the end watching spunky, sweet and sad little Aria get endlessly shuffled back and forth between her divorced and monstrously selfish parents gets a bit repetitive (although it IS all slowly evolving towards an ending – the repetition does pay off). And a few sequences don't work as well as most. But for every minor miss-step under Argento's adventurous hand there are a number of wonderful and very cinematic moments. It's a film I look forward to seeing again, and I hope it gets an English subtitled release on blu-ray or DVD soon.

keenast Good films are not easy to find, really good films even less so. Incompresa is one of the rare finds.The story is 'simple', it's about a nine year old girl growing up in the 80ies inside an 'artistic' family, whose artsy parents are so pre-occupied with themselves they don't care about their youngest daughter at all. She barely survives, a miracle that she makes it. All that is shown in an unsentimental way, the audience never gets lured into fake emotions.Asia Argento, the director, is somebody well worth watching and following. And, btw, she is not, like somebody wrote here, related to Leni Riefenstahl. I don't know where this is coming from.

theina84 Incompresa is childish and narcissistic. It has no artistic purpose except self-celebration and self-complacency. Good interpretation for Charlotte Gainsbourg and non-conformist musical choices are the only positive notes in this movie. The film is autobiographic, Aria is regist's second name.On the verge of divorce, Aria's infantile and selfish parents are too preoccupied with their careers and extra-marital affairs to properly tend to any of Aria's needs. While her two older sisters are pampered, Aria is treated with cold indifference. Yet she yearns to love and to be loved. At school, Aria excels academically but is considered a misfit by everyone. She is misunderstood. Aria finds comfort in her cat - Dac and in her best friend - Angelica. Thrown out of both parents' homes, abandoned by all, even her best friend, Aria finally reaches the limit of what she can bear. She makes an unexpected decision in her life.