Aloft (film)

Aloft (Spanish: No Llores Vuela) is a 2014 internationally co-produced drama film written and directed by Claudia Llosa, and starring Jennifer Connelly, Cillian Murphy and Mélanie Laurent.

She, along with other parents and children, have come there in order to be seen by the Architect, a faith healer who builds small delicate structures out of branches and then brings patients inside them.

The Architect works by lottery and Nana's son Gully, who has an inoperable brain tumour, is not chosen to be saved.

Before the Architect can touch the winning patient, a blind boy, the falcon of Ivan (Nana's other son) destroys the structure.

When Ivan learns that Jania intends to interview his mother, he decides to join her, leaving behind his own wife and child, and bringing one of his falcons.

While Nana is telling the story, Jania unwraps her lottery stone and sees it is green, which means she has not won.

The website's critics consensus reads: "Glacially paced and ineptly plotted, Aloft crushes the game efforts of a talented cast under a dreary viewing experience whose title proves sadly ironic.

"[5] On Metacritic, the film has a weighted average score of 34 out of 100, based on 20 critics, indicating "generally unfavorable reviews".

[6] Critical reception in Spain, however, was more positive, with El País calling it "hypnotic and exciting",[7] while also receiving good notices from film magazines Fotogramas[8] and Cinemanía.