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The Seasons in Quincy: Four Portraits of John Berger

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United Kingdom · 2017
1h 30m
Director Tilda Swinton, Colin MacCabe, Bartek Dziadosz, Christopher Roth
Starring John Berger, Tilda Swinton, Colin MacCabe, Christopher Roth
Genre Documentary

Prolific artist, philosopher, and writer John Berger is the focus of this vivid four-part cinematic portrait. In 1973, he moved from urban London to the tiny Alpine village of Quincy. The film examines different aspects of Berger's life in this remote village in the Alps.

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The Guardian by Andrew Pulver

As a collection, The Seasons in Quincy certainly hangs together; it’s also an absolutely inspired way of approaching its subject. If the outcome is a little uneven; well, that’s the price that sometimes has to be paid.

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The Hollywood Reporter by Boyd van Hoeij

Taken together, the shorts offer some scraps on Berger the man and the artist and thinker without really supplying a full overview, while also exploring some of his main preoccupations in ways that would benefit from at least some prior knowledge of his work.

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Time Out London by Dave Calhoun

Some prior interest in Berger would help, but even newcomers should find this an infectious portrait of independent thought and living.

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New York Post by Farran Smith Nehme

The film can be rough going for those who know little of Berger’s work. That’s especially true of the second part, a stupefying collage about Berger’s home in rural Quincy, France.

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CineVue by John Bleasdale

The Seasons in Quincy is most compelling when we and it listens to Berger or captures him listening to someone else.

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Variety by Nick Schager

Swinton’s warm, unassuming direction generates an intimacy that does much to compensate for the overarching project’s wispiness — although even her clear affection for Berger can’t ultimately make “The Seasons in Quincy” more than a for-aficionados-only companion piece to his pre-existing paintings and writing.

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