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SXSW Audience Award-winning animated feature based on the graphic novel memoir of the same name by Power Paola, which chronicles...
SXSW Audience Award-winning animated feature based on the graphic novel memoir of the same name by Power Paola, which chronicles her adolescence.
Born in a not-so-conventional family, Paola grows up between Ecuador and Colombia and finds herself unable to fit in any mold. With a unique feminine vision of the world, she will have to fight against prejudice and struggle for her independence while her universe is struck by a series of crises.
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78 %9 reviewsRotten Tomatoes® rating
71 %19 reviewsAudience score rating
"The movie's visual pleasures and idiosyncrasies may make for lively animation, but as a narrative film, "Virus Tropical" feels more like a sketch."
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Variety
Variety"Appealingly intricate animation is the main selling point of this coming-of-age story which captures, perhaps a little too authentically, the self absorption of adolescence."
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Screen Daily
Screen Daily"This light reflection on growing up in a close-knit family of three sisters has a sensibility earmarked for teenagers, and should particularly connect to girls."
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Hollywood Reporter
Hollywood ReporterVirus Tropical | Details
Award winner- Winner of the Audience Award (Global), 2018 SXSW Film Festival
- Rating
- R13, Drug use, sex scenes & offensive language
- Runtime
- 97
- Genre
- Drama
- Country of origin
- Colombia, Ecuador
