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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

In some ways, childhood means living at the mercy of the universe. This is especially true if it’s the 1990s and the AIDS virus has made an orphan of you. You have no say in where you live, or even in ...

The languid yet lovely “Summer 1993,” about an orphaned girl who must adapt to a new family, explores tricky territory that few films attempt: how a child deals with grief. If the material sounds glum ...

A delicate coming-of-age story set in Spain’s Catalonia region, “Summer 1993” begins in Barcelona, where the film’s elementary-school-age heroine Frida (a terrific Laia Artigas) has just lost both ...

Children, it is said, are resilient creatures, able to survive physical and emotional difficulties while retaining few, if any, permanent scars. Although that’s generally true, it shouldn’t imply that ...