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Embers

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Poland, United States · 2015
1h 25m
Director Claire Carré
Starring Jason Ritter, Greta Fernández, Tucker Smallwood, Dominique Swain
Genre Drama, Science Fiction

A decade after a global epidemic, those who remain suffer from lasting effects of the virus — retrograde and anterograde amnesia. The survivors navigate a decaying landscape, unable to recall the past or create new memories. Five interwoven stories each explore a different facet of life without memory in a future that has no past.

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The Hollywood Reporter by Frank Scheck

Embers strains for a philosophical profundity that eludes it. And despite its brief running time, so little actually happens in the plot that it feels much longer than it is. But the film has many resonant moments.

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The Playlist by Jordan Ruimy

Embers attempts to be a complicated dissection of a possible world not too far ahead of us, but it lacks the imagination to make us soar along with its vision.

70

Los Angeles Times by Michael Rechtshaffen

While one wishes Carré, who shares screenplay credit with Charles Spano, might have hung those stirring visuals on more involving plotting, Embers nevertheless makes a strong, not to mention timely, impression.

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Variety by Scott Tobias

Embers offers a series of compelling premises and never follows through on them, content to drift along on its characters’ dull malaise and allow self-conscious visual poetry to stand in for real emotion.

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