A delicate sleeper of a film that movingly looks at an orphaned six-year-old's loneliness and confusion without the usual dip into sentimentality. A 6-year-old orphan goes to live with her uncle’s ...

Childhood is so often seen as a period of unbridled promise and accumulation — of things, of knowledge, of friends and family — that the death of a parent can seem like the most confounding and ...

BARCELONA — A coming-of-age told from the perspective of a six-year-old orphan who is forced to live with her aunt and uncle, “Summer 1993” is the first feature of Barcelona-based Carla Simón.

Writer-director Carla Simón, whose gentle, poetic drama “Summer 1993” reflects on the time she went to live with her uncle’s family after the death of her mother, offers a relatable array of candid ...

Six-year-old Frida (Artigas) is forced to leave Barcelona and her grandparents to live with her uncle Esteve (Verdaguer) and aunt Marga (Casi) in the countryside. Although she’s welcome Frida can’t ...

In Barcelona a household is being packed up, literally and figuratively, following the death of a mother. Her six-year-old daughter, Frida, is taken to the Catalonia countryside, to the home of her ...

About 25 minutes in, the weight of the pain in the deceptively balmy Summer 1993 hits like a rock finally settling on a shallow freshwater floor. The perspective of Carla Simón’s autobiographical ...

If you’re like me, you don’t remember much about your sixth year of life, just fuzzy flashes of distant memory that are neither reliable nor stable. But if you’re like Frida, the adorable 6-year-old ...

Welcome to Combing the 100% Club. In this column, I’ll be reviewing and recommending lesser-known members of Rotten Tomatoes’ 100% Club — the site’s trove of films with perfect Tomatometer scores.