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  • 2017
  • Not Rated
  • Grasshopper Film
  • 1 h 39 m
  • 2017
  • Not Rated
  • Grasshopper Film
  • 1 h 39 m
The Human Surge

Summary Buenos Aires. Exe, 25 years old, has just lost his job and is not looking for another one. His neighbors and friends seem as odd to him as they always do. Online, he meets Alf, a boy from Mozambique who is also bored with his job and who is about to follow Archie, another boy who has run away into the jungle. Through the dense vegetation...

Directed By: Eduardo Williams

Written By: Eduardo Williams

  • 2017
  • Not Rated
  • Grasshopper Film
  • 1 h 39 m
  • 2017
  • Not Rated
  • Grasshopper Film
  • 1 h 39 m

The Human Surge

Metascore Mixed or Average Based on 7 Critic Reviews
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Summary Buenos Aires. Exe, 25 years old, has just lost his job and is not looking for another one. His neighbors and friends seem as odd to him as they always do. Online, he meets Alf, a boy from Mozambique who is also bored with his job and who is about to follow Archie, another boy who has run away into the jungle. Through the dense vegetation...

Directed By: Eduardo Williams

Written By: Eduardo Williams

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Metascore
Mixed or Average Based on 7 Critic Reviews
56
43% Positive
3 Reviews
29% Mixed
2 Reviews
29% Negative
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Metascore
Mixed or Average Based on 7 Critic Reviews
56
43% Positive
3 Reviews
29% Mixed
2 Reviews
29% Negative
2 Reviews

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83
Sep 9, 2016
This is a heckuva stimulating cinematic achievement for a relative newcomer. The Human Surge offers a shrewd commentary on the dissonance of technological connectivity and personal communication.
By Eric Kohn FULL REVIEW
80
Mar 5, 2017
Surreal and wordlessly unsettling, Eduardo Williams’ globe-crossing feature The Human Surge is intimate and pleasurably inscrutable.
By Diana Clarke FULL REVIEW
75
Feb 24, 2017
Often blatantly ugly or boring, it’s not so much deliberately confrontational in the way so many experimental films are (or pride themselves on being), but rather risk-taking for the sake of something almost impossible to articulate — even if based in something obvious.
By Ethan Vestby FULL REVIEW
50
Mar 2, 2017
Just when you think you’ve got the movie pegged, it pulls a daring switch of perspective. While the thrill of that little coup is short-lived, it suggests that Mr. Williams may come up with something more substantial with his next feature.
By Glenn Kenny FULL REVIEW
50
Feb 9, 2017
If the slender paradox at the heart of the film is that the thing that connects us most is the difficulty of connection, The Human Surge is a victim of its own effectiveness: It’s rigorous, rarefied, and utterly remote.
By Jessica Kiang FULL REVIEW
25
Mar 3, 2017
Though the picture is admirable on a conceptual level, its execution is incoherent, interminable and a colossal strain on the eyes.
By Matt Fagerholm FULL REVIEW
25
Feb 24, 2017
The film’s default state is an ambient inertia that gestures vaguely in multiple directions without concerning itself with the hard work of constructing an argument, a convincing milieu, or even a compelling mood.
By Carson Lund FULL REVIEW

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Production Company Ruda Cine, Un Puma, Bando à Parte, RT Features, Rádio e Televisão de Portugal (RTP)
Release Date Mar 3, 2017
Duration 1 h 39 m
Rating Not Rated
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Awards

Locarno International Film Festival
• 2 Wins & 2 Nominations
Jeonju Film Festival
• 1 Win & 2 Nominations
Janela do Recife International Film Festival
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination

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