The movie tells the story of a 16-year-old girl who visits her aunt in Chicago for the summer. While there, she falls for another girl, and she and her aunt challenge each other's sex and spirit.
10 August 1980, Louisville, Kentucky, USA
December 05, 2017
Bucks genre conventions to explore how opposing personalities and generational gaps can bring about respectful admiration and togetherness.
November 03, 2017
Its leisurely quality-its disinterest in "pumping" things up, its focus on the small yet vivid spaces of listening, understanding, struggle, identity-is its greatest asset.
November 03, 2017
What might have devolved into cutesy odd-couple territory instead moves in unexpected directions, bolstered by a fundamental idealism.
December 03, 2017
As comfortable to slip into as an afternoon in the sun, as satisfying as a late-night piece of cake, Princess Cyd is a jewel of a film that plumbs thematic depths far below its surface.
November 02, 2017
With great delicacy, Cone metes out details about his subjects through refined dialogue and everyday behavior; this is the sort of movie that makes you feel you've befriended the characters.
November 03, 2017
Stephen Cone's Princess Cyd is distinguished by a dramatic complexity that would seem to run counter to its remarkably even-tempered tone.
November 02, 2017
full of infectious warmth and compassion
November 03, 2017
... it is a generous, warm and emotionally intelligent portrayal of female friendship across ages.
November 16, 2017
While it certainly loses steam when it stretches its reach toward something grander, Princess Cyd is at its best when it focuses on the guileless intricacies of the human personality.
November 01, 2017
Thoughtful and sensitive yet energetic and never dull, Princess Cyd is a beautiful piece of filmmaking destined to find its way onto people's lists of favourites.
November 29, 2017
Sometimes the calm between these two women is realistic. But the director often cops out the second his characters get into messier emotions.
November 02, 2017
Not a lot happens in Princess Cyd, but it's hard not to watch this film without feeling changed.
