Kid-Thing

»A dark fairy tale that casts a spell.«

»A film that is remarkable in every respect until its shockingly mysterious end. Sydney Aguirre impresses, without showing much emotion, as Annie, the wrath of Texas.«

»Seldom has one seen such an unbiased child in the cinema so fascinated by being alone.«

»Once you have grooved your way into Annie's very personal absurd wonderland, you don't want to leave so quickly. Beguilingly strange.«

»A lyrical, often comical, deeply melancholic ode to the transience of childlike innocence. With "Kid-Thing", the Zellner Brothers put themselves at the head of an exciting new generation of American filmmakers.«

»Great, because exactly observing and supernatural narrating cinema, which makes curious for further unspent US film work beyond the established independent business. The score of the Texas "Octopus Project" is also not from bad parents. A cinematic indie gem from Texas.«

»For some years now, American independent cinema has been flourishing again, but in a more remarkable way. David Zellner's irritating and poetic portrait of a ten-year-old girl who more or less wordlessly rebels against the whole world has something of a dark hole that gradually draws the viewer into it. Zellner looks into the abyss of modern life, and the deeper this view goes, the more enticing the nothingness staring at the filmmaker becomes.«

»Radical break with the comfortable nest warmth. One of the most interesting films of US-American independent cinema.«

»Bitterly evil independent fairy tale.«

»A film that drills deep into the viewer's head. Somewhere between a white-trash social study, a nightmarish fairy tale film, or perhaps just an illustration of the imaginary inner voice of a lonely, disoriented child, moves this disturbing film.«