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  • 2011
  • Not Rated
  • Sundance Selects
  • 1 h 20 m
  • 2011
  • Not Rated
  • Sundance Selects
  • 1 h 20 m

Summary Michael Tully’s Septien follows Cornelius Rawlings who returns to his family’s farm eighteen years after disappearing without a trace. While his parents are long deceased, Cornelius’s brothers continue to live in isolation on this forgotten piece of land. Ezra is a freak for two things: cleanliness and Jesus. Amos is a self-taught artist...

Directed By: Michael Tully

Written By: Robert Longstreet, Onur Tukel, Michael Tully

  • 2011
  • Not Rated
  • Sundance Selects
  • 1 h 20 m
  • 2011
  • Not Rated
  • Sundance Selects
  • 1 h 20 m

Septien

Metascore Mixed or Average Based on 10 Critic Reviews
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Summary Michael Tully’s Septien follows Cornelius Rawlings who returns to his family’s farm eighteen years after disappearing without a trace. While his parents are long deceased, Cornelius’s brothers continue to live in isolation on this forgotten piece of land. Ezra is a freak for two things: cleanliness and Jesus. Amos is a self-taught artist...

Directed By: Michael Tully

Written By: Robert Longstreet, Onur Tukel, Michael Tully

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Metascore
Mixed or Average Based on 10 Critic Reviews
50
30% Positive
3 Reviews
60% Mixed
6 Reviews
10% Negative
1 Review

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Metascore
Mixed or Average Based on 10 Critic Reviews
50
30% Positive
3 Reviews
60% Mixed
6 Reviews
10% Negative
1 Review

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75
Jul 7, 2011
The setup and storyline are absurd, but the angst underneath is as earnest as a campfire confession.
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63
Jul 14, 2011
A microscopic piece of shoestring weirdness-slash-hipster regionalism that the actor Robert Longstreet delivers into some odder, funkier, altogether mysterious place. I don't know what he's doing or what he's going for. But unlike the rest of the movie, his bizarreness seems authentic rather than forced or put on.
By Wesley Morris FULL REVIEW
60
Jul 26, 2011
A traditional southern gothic, Septien delivers oddities from the perverse to the parochial with a straight face, and in the process restores the oddball genre to what might be called authenticity.
By Sara Maria Vizcarrondo FULL REVIEW
50
Jul 5, 2011
Like many films early in a director's career, it plays more as a sketchbook of intended future endeavors than as a cohesive and fully realized vision in its own right.
By Chuck Bowen FULL REVIEW
40
Jul 5, 2011
Never the same movie for five minutes straight, Septien can't sit still.
By Nick Pinkerton FULL REVIEW
40
Jul 5, 2011
Weakly spoofing, or at least deliberately tweaking, Southern Gothic conventions, writer-director Tully can't fully get his arms around this messy genre mashup.
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30
Jul 7, 2011
A lackadaisical dive into backwoods barminess and masculine neuroses, this low-budget paean to indoor plumbing and rampant facial hair doesn't unfold so much as unravel.
By Jeannette Catsoulis FULL REVIEW

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Production Company Nomadic Independence Pictures
Release Date Jul 8, 2011
Duration 1 h 20 m
Rating Not Rated
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Awards

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• 1 Nomination

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