The Body Remembers When the World Broke Open is a genuine social realist film and the fact that it is shot in real-time only heightens the sense of reality. Everything is authentic.
The Body Remembers When the World Broke Open
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Canada, Norway · 2019
1h 45m
Director Elle-Máijá Tailfeathers
Starring Violet Nelson, Elle-Máijá Tailfeathers, Charlie Hannah, Barbara Eve Harris
Genre Drama
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When Áila encounters a woman barefoot on the side of the road, she discovers she is running away from an abusive relationship. Áila decides to bring the woman, Rosie, home. The story of how two Indigenous women navigate trauma and its aftermath in this woman-made thriller.
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Los Angeles Times by Gary Goldstein
Don’t let its florid, mouthful of a title mislead you: The Body Remembers When the World Broke Open is a film that’s as urgent and unpretentious as it is remarkable. It’s safe to say you haven’t seen too many movies quite like it.
The New York Times by Jeannette Catsoulis
Filmed almost entirely in real time, and using a series of long, intimate takes, “The Body Remembers” is about privilege and its lack, motherhood and its absence, race and its legacy.
Stands out in a field of generic, cookie-cutter dramas, not simply in terms of representation — though the female-made, indigenous-focused thriller offers a field day for intersectionality theorists — but also in the unconventional way the story unfolds.
The lack of dramatic fireworks mute the film’s impact somewhat. And young Ms. Nelson has an unfortunate tendency to mumble, swallow her lines.
The Hollywood Reporter by Sheri Linden
There's a wrenching sadness to this simply told story, but also but also a heartrending hope.
The film is gentle, subtle, patient and wholly authentic. What makes it essential is not only in its ability to create a drama that’s real, harrowing, haunting, and hopeful but in its ability to keep playing in our heart long after it’s over.
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