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- 2022
- Janus Films
- 1 h 46 m
- 2022
- Janus Films
- 1 h 46 m
Summary Two parallel love stories in which the partners are thwarted by hidden, inevitable obstacles, the force of superstition, and the mechanics of power.
Directed By: Jafar Panahi
Written By: Jafar Panahi
- 2022
- Janus Films
- 1 h 46 m
- 2022
- Janus Films
- 1 h 46 m
No Bears
7.9
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Summary Two parallel love stories in which the partners are thwarted by hidden, inevitable obstacles, the force of superstition, and the mechanics of power.
Directed By: Jafar Panahi
Written By: Jafar Panahi
Where to Watch
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Metascore
Universal Acclaim
Based on 29 Critic Reviews
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100% Positive
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0% Mixed
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The realities of the situation are grim enough that a lesser work might have paled into insignificance, but No Bears — the best and bravest new feature I saw last year, a work of extraordinary emotional power, conceptual ingenuity and critical force — somehow manages the opposite.
No Bears is a picture that’s in keeping with his recent work—circumstances deemed that it just had to be—but one that breaks away from it in ways that yield a work of, yes, astonishment.
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Panahi’s courageousness as an agitator is matched only by his inventiveness as a filmmaker.
Defiant, endlessly resourceful and gripping cinema.
The director’s bravery and ingenuity—by continuing to create new work, advocate for himself, and also entertain us—remains an utterly inspiring thing.
Filtering his immense contribution to cinema through a deceptively incidental lens, he once again reminds us that movie-making can be a profoundly humane endeavour; at once comedic, tragic and truthful.
No Bears generally spends less time finding aesthetic articulations of its themes than it does building out an increasingly convoluted plot to support them.
