Misunderstood

An occasionally strange, occasionally brutal and occasionally lovely work that goes up on the shelf with "The Ocean of Helena Lee" and "Girlhood" as one of the more impressive coming-of-age tales of recent times.

Ms. Argento has a florid visual style, and she likes turning up the heat.

The ostensible boldness of Misunderstood is undermined by the sense that it's also pandering-that its view of childhood as a bourgeois horror-show is at least as salable on the art-house circuit as it is authentic to its creator's experiences.

Between the portrait of a dysfunctional family, the criticism of machismo, the lucid observations on school dynamics and sexual awakening, Misunderstood confirms Argento... as a director of enormous power and talent. [Full review in Spanish]