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  • 2016
  • Unrated
  • Film Movement
  • 1 h 32 m
  • 2016
  • Unrated
  • Film Movement
  • 1 h 32 m

Summary In an invisible territory at the margins of society lives a wounded community who face the threat of being forgotten by political institutions and having their rights as citizens trampled. Disarmed veterans, taciturn adolescents, drug addicts trying to escape addiction through love; ex-special forces soldiers still at war with the world;...

Directed By: Roberto Minervini

Written By: Denise Ping Lee, Diego Romero, Roberto Minervini

  • 2016
  • Unrated
  • Film Movement
  • 1 h 32 m
  • 2016
  • Unrated
  • Film Movement
  • 1 h 32 m

The Other Side

Metascore Generally Favorable Based on 10 Critic Reviews
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Summary In an invisible territory at the margins of society lives a wounded community who face the threat of being forgotten by political institutions and having their rights as citizens trampled. Disarmed veterans, taciturn adolescents, drug addicts trying to escape addiction through love; ex-special forces soldiers still at war with the world;...

Directed By: Roberto Minervini

Written By: Denise Ping Lee, Diego Romero, Roberto Minervini

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Generally Favorable Based on 10 Critic Reviews
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Generally Favorable Based on 10 Critic Reviews
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88
May 17, 2016
Roberto Minervini's documentary is as quintessentially American a text as one could hope for in today's divided union.
By Carson Lund FULL REVIEW
80
May 17, 2016
His fly on the wall approach never feels exploitative – in instances, it yields surprising empathy. In spite of his characters’ actions, Minervini miraculously captures traces of profound humanity.
By Nigel M Smith FULL REVIEW
75
May 20, 2016
If it were possible to splice the DNA of William Faulkner and John Cassavetes, the resulting progeny might produce a film like Roberto Minervini’s The Other Side, an immersive, almost harrowingly naturalistic plunge into the lives of marginal Louisianans obsessed with guns, drugs and belligerent resentments.
By Godfrey Cheshire FULL REVIEW
70
May 17, 2016
There is a compassion in this filmmaking that is markedly lacking in America’s attitude towards the people it pushes to its outer fringes.
By Wendy Ide FULL REVIEW
67
May 17, 2016
Unlike Minervini’s previous outing, which gently unfolded through quiet, unstructured moments, the film feels far more scripted and staged, and, in effect, more shocking and exploitative.
By Amanda Waltz FULL REVIEW
50
Jun 9, 2016
In the end, the power of Minervini’s pseudo-fiction gives way to a much blander version of pseudo-reality.
By Kate Taylor FULL REVIEW
50
May 18, 2016
It's all shocking, of course, but it also often looks staged and performed rather than merely observed.
By Alan Scherstuhl FULL REVIEW

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Production Company Agat Films & Cie, Okta Film, Arte France Cinéma, Rai Cinema, mymovies.it, L'Aide aux Cinémas du Monde, Centre national du cinéma et de l'image animée (CNC), Ministère des Affaires étrangères et du Développement International, Institut Français, Ministero dei Beni e delle Attività Culturali e del Turismo (MiBACT)
Release Date May 20, 2016
Duration 1 h 32 m
Rating Unrated
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Website http://www.oktafilm.it/project/louisiana/
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Awards

Seville European Film Festival
• 2 Wins & 2 Nominations
Cannes Film Festival
• 2 Nominations
St. Petersburg Message to Man Film Festival
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination

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