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September Says Reviews
Themes such as feminine complexity, the denunciation of suppressed racism, and activism in favor of family diversity emerge in its story, but Labed fails to combine them into a sufficiently seductive, albeit lewd, work. [Full review in Spanish]
In her debut film, [Ariane] Labed demonstrates her ability to generate disturbing and suggestive atmospheres...[Full review in Spanish]
Ariane Labed makes her directorial debut with a surgical and very gothic dissection of puberty that is as vivid and murky as it is ultimately rushed. [Full review in Spanish]
More effective at generating atmosphere than in its narrative role. [Full review in Spanish]
Employing bold visuals and leaning into close-up, static shots, Labed's direction entices audiences into the strange world of these three complex women.
With a sparse script, minimal score and grainy visuals, plus the remote setting of the house in Ireland, which looks like it’s been left untouched for decades, audiences are drawn into the sisters’ insular world.
Labed’s film, like Johnson’s novel, understands how sisters practise life on one another, testing out the worst facets of their personalities until they are ready to present them to the world.
Does it all come together? Not really. Nice performances, though.
I’d say no matter which month it is, very little about this small-budget movie is worth following.
For a good two-thirds of it, I thought it was really decent...
We will see better work from this writer/director in the future because there is a lot of promise.
These directorial choices also act to keep the sisters at an emotional distance, as if the camera were another classmate wary -- or weary? -- of their kooky unpredictability. Would that the plot twist was equally unpredictable.
It is compellingly unsettling throughout.
The closing twist is crudely telegraphed earlier on and arrives with a naff explanatory flashback that’s laugh-out-loud preposterous. So no, not an especially successful adaptation.
September Says never quite gels. But Tharia and Kann give vivid, unsettling performances, bringing an enthusiastic spark to a film that otherwise seems to float in its own hermetically sealed space.
A film that feels actorly rather than real.
The third act unfolds in a way that lacks foreshadowing, yet Labed’s debut is so haunting and assured—packed with eerie imagery and unsettling performances—that it’s entirely possible we’re witnessing the birth of a future classic.
Nonetheless, September Says is a very exciting and fascinating movie, especially as a debut from a filmmaker that I hope we can see much more of in the near future.
A sophisticated, poetic, and thorny story of guilt and repression, September Says is a dark mirror of unrealised and unstable identity. Waking up to reality is unkinder when even the most twisted of fantasies are grounded in unspoken truth.
A film that knows how to create a brilliant atmosphere, but whose result is hampered by her [Labed] attachment to an unexpected plot twist. [Full review in Spanish]
Films too often value concept over emotion and sterile provocation over sincerity, a mistake Labed savvily avoids to her film’s considerable benefit.