Breathe

The Macho King

"Nietzsche says it's easier to renounce passion than control it. Meaning we become so preoccupied by it that we lose a kind of freedom... Exactly it's the notion of excess... Passion is harmful when it becomes excessive, which is most of the time..."

Ana Sousa

Sarah's the impersonation of everything that makes growing up so hard. Hiding, faking, lying, the need to be liked, to be cool, to be friends with everyone without actually being a friend. I knew so many people who hid rottenness behind their beautiful faces. You don't have to be perfect. But you sure don't have to act like it as a superior being to everyone else. Growing up without Sarahs would be so much easier.

Matthew Martens

Schematic and reductive, but (in part for the same reason) pinpoint precise, Breathe is a cool creeping cautionary tale about the collision of family dysfunction with our predilection for consoling, consuming passions. Setting its reductio ad terrorum conclusion to one side, it also provides an eerily apt depiction of the elation/confusion mindfuck characteristic of close relationships with borderline personalities.

Drew.

Is it fucked up if this is the closest I've ever seen to my high school experience portrayed in fiction? But beyond that... a really powerful and impeccably made film.

Carlos Filipe Freitas

An oppressive suffocation (valid for both characters) can be distinctly felt throughout the film... all of them require a deep breathe. (3.5 stars)

cindy.nguyen

The final scene was magnificent.

frailsoul

Very good at reflecting the tension of teenage relationships. We want more Melanie!

Ostermyers

Unexpected. Subtle. And somehow beautiful.