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- 2019
- Kino Lorber
- 1 h 31 m
- 2019
- Kino Lorber
- 1 h 31 m
Summary A beautiful actress struggles to connect with her disfigured co-star on the set of a European auteur's English-language debut.
Written By: Aaron Schimberg
- 2019
- Kino Lorber
- 1 h 31 m
- 2019
- Kino Lorber
- 1 h 31 m
Chained for Life
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Summary A beautiful actress struggles to connect with her disfigured co-star on the set of a European auteur's English-language debut.
Written By: Aaron Schimberg
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 14 Critic Reviews
79
100% Positive
14 Reviews
14 Reviews
0% Mixed
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0% Negative
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Chained for Life is more than a polemic. There's a free-floating absurdist mood established, humorous and self-referential, allowing space for the audience to not just feel, but think. This is no small feat.
Schimberg confidently blurs the lines between fantasy and reality (more than once a scene that appears to be real is actually fiction and vice versa), though never to the point that it detracts from the people onscreen.
[A] wonky, charming satire.
Anchored by Weixler’s and Pearson’s natural charm, Chained for Life stands up as both a quiet ode to the experimental, dreamlike spirit of moviemaking and a seriocomic corrective to sentimentalized sideshow portrayals.
Chained for Life invites repeat viewing and “cult film” status, pretty much by design. Whatever writer-director Aaron Schimberg’s other intentions, he’s made a must-see movie for film buffs, one you must-see again just to get all the inside jokes.
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, and Chained for Life will have you rubbing your eyes to make sense of what you’ve just seen.
A meta-commentary on filmmaking in general and cinematic conceptions of beauty in specific, the film is clearly enamored with its own cleverness—which isn’t to say that it’s not clever, just that a more clear-headed film could have distilled its ideas better, and been more satisfying as a result.
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