Paste Magazine by Andrew Crump
[Campbell] and Radwanski pair well. Together, they make Anne at 13,000 Ft. into a work that may leave the audience gasping for air.
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Canada · 2019
1h 15m
Director Kazik Radwanski
Starring Deragh Campbell, Matt Johnson, Dorothea Paas, Lawrene Denkers
Genre Drama
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27-year-old Anne works at a Toronto daycare while struggling to navigate the rest of her life. But when she gets the chance to skydive for the first time, her mentality shifts radically. As her behavior at home and at work becomes increasingly erratic, Anne starts freefalling in more ways than one.
Paste Magazine by Andrew Crump
[Campbell] and Radwanski pair well. Together, they make Anne at 13,000 Ft. into a work that may leave the audience gasping for air.
The Globe and Mail (Toronto) by Barry Hertz
Anne is such a startling and overwhelming work that the act of discussing it can feel unapproachable and crippling.
The Hollywood Reporter by Deborah Young
On his third feature after "Tower" and "How Heavy This Hammer," Radwanski hits his quiet stride here, and the directing matches Campbell’s intuitive approach. Ajla Odobasic’s delicate, fast-moving editing reflects Anne’s uncertain hold on reality, while the open ending lets the viewer decide whether Anne or reality wins in the end.
Anne at 13,000 ft might look like mumblecore, but it plays as a psychological horror and a ticking-clock thriller that morphs into a wild, windswept tangle of incipient, but never quite arriving tragedy.
Nikolay Michaylov’s up-close and occasionally claustrophobic, documentary-style camerawork pushes the realization that Anne’s giddiness is always flirting with a dark rebound. We sometimes feel we’re in it with her as the camera whips around Campbell’s face.
The New York Times by Manohla Dargis
The title character is one of those difficult women that the movies just can’t quit and rarely prove as interesting as filmmakers seem to think. Anne obviously has issues — psychological, behavioral, familial — but the movie isn’t big on specifics. It’s a pretty, uninvolving blur.
The film intimately immerses us in the psyche of a woman for whom each day is a minefield of uncomfortable interactions.
The A.V. Club by Mike D'Angelo
That Radwanski so expertly navigates the fraught subject of mental illness, avoiding most pitfalls, makes it at once harder to understand and easier to forgive the lack of subtlety in Anne At 13,000 Feet’s titular controlling metaphor.
RogerEbert.com by Peter Sobczynski
If watching a low-key portrait of a person struggling through a personal crisis with a refreshing lack of cheap melodrama sounds intriguing, well, that's exactly what director Kazik Radwanski has delivered with undeniably compelling results.
What the film does brilliantly is compose a symphony of social awkwardness, with Anne as its virtuoso focus.
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