Synopsis
A terminally ill teen upsets her parents when she falls in love with a small-time drug dealer.
2019 Directed by Shannon Murphy
A terminally ill teen upsets her parents when she falls in love with a small-time drug dealer.
Create NSW Whitefalk Films Screen Australia Jan Chapman Films Spectrum Films WeirAnderson.com Entertainment One Celluloid Dreams
Zęby mleczne, Παιδικά δόντια, El glorioso caos de la vida, 베이비티스, Piena zobi, Молочные зубы, Milla, Babyteeth - Tutti i colori di Milla, Dente de Leite, Млечни зуби, Než skončí léto, 乳牙, Παιδικά Δόντια, 謝謝你愛過我, Süt Dişi, სარძევე კბილები, عزیزم, Kým sa skončí leto, Milla meets Moses, שיני חלב, Молочні зуби, ベイビーティース, Milla Meets Moses, Babyteeth: prima iubire
“I’m gonna enjoy becoming part of a sky like this Dad.”
eliza scanlen has the RANGE this was so fresh and fun and i could just tell it was going to break my heart.. i laughed, i cried (still crying a little bit right now tbh) it was all done so well and felt so real! you truly feel every laugh, every smile, every tear and every feeling in every look. the performances were brilliant and ah i’m so obsessed with all the little chapter titles!!!!!! that ending too??? i’m such a mess?? wow i sure did fall pretty hard for this film
so perfect it hurts
also maybe the only movie i’ve watched and thought “thank god it’s long”
I was not really paying attention at first cause I was playing trivial pursuit and eating potato leek soup but this was mad good
Rooted to the bloody tissue of real life and enameled with traces of early Jane Campion, “Babyteeth” is the kind of soft-hearted tearjerker that does everything in its power to rescue beauty from pain; the kind that feels like it would lose its balance and tip right off the screen if it stopped being able to walk the line between the two. And yet, despite a handful of shaky moments and a story that sounds like a supercut of all the worst tropes in contemporary independent cinema, Shannon Murphy’s primal and surefooted debut never falls into either mawkishness or sadism. It keeps you on your toes from the moment it starts, brings together a winsome but wounded group of people who are all struggling to slay the “tiny gods” in their heads, and then forces them through an ordeal that might just break their hearts. And yours.
CIFF 2019: film #1
“this body, it’s too much”
too all over the place tor me to take in all at once. very realistic in that sense, but it feels like too much and can’t decide which story it wants to tell most. eliza is magnetic, but otherwise this never quite hit the mark for me
The terminal romance genre is a genre so often occupied by manipulative and schmaltzy trash; however, with Babyteeth, you’ll find a refreshing, wonderfully quirky and heartbreaking teen cancer-romance that isn’t afraid to find comedy amidst tragedy. It’s a film that is wholly honest in its portrayal of a dysfunctional family in constant worry of what the future holds, with Shannon Murphy capturing those feelings in a way that never feel patronizing or manufactured. This is an incredibly unique and tender debut feature that shows what a bright future Murphy has ahead of her. I can’t wait to watch whatever she’ll be doing next!
Performances help to hold this together, but truly it reads more as a random jumble of scenes and storylines than a coherent film. The text on screen only worsened that feeling, making me feel as if I was looking at an editing timeline rather than a finished work. It’s messy, and frankly, I didn’t have much affection for the individual pieces. Age gaps aren’t creepy if the child is dying? Huh? I needed this to lean way more into comedy for it to work for me, because none of the drama was particularly affecting.