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  • 2023
  • Kimstim Films
  • 1 h 33 m
  • 2023
  • Kimstim Films
  • 1 h 33 m
Unrest

Summary New technologies are transforming a 19th-century watchmaking town in Switzerland. Josephine, a young factory worker, produces the unrest wheel, swinging in the heart of the mechanical watch. Exposed to new ways of organizing money, time and labour, she gets involved with the local movement of the anarchist watchmakers, where she meets Ru...

Directed By: Cyril Schäublin

Written By: Cyril Schäublin

  • 2023
  • Kimstim Films
  • 1 h 33 m
  • 2023
  • Kimstim Films
  • 1 h 33 m

Unrest

Metascore Generally Favorable Based on 9 Critic Reviews
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Summary New technologies are transforming a 19th-century watchmaking town in Switzerland. Josephine, a young factory worker, produces the unrest wheel, swinging in the heart of the mechanical watch. Exposed to new ways of organizing money, time and labour, she gets involved with the local movement of the anarchist watchmakers, where she meets Ru...

Directed By: Cyril Schäublin

Written By: Cyril Schäublin

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Metascore
Generally Favorable Based on 9 Critic Reviews
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Generally Favorable Based on 9 Critic Reviews
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78% Positive
7 Reviews
0% Mixed
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22% Negative
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90
May 4, 2023
The film punctures that airless sense of fate which can suffocate period pieces and restores this moment of upheaval to immediacy.
By Amy Nicholson FULL REVIEW
90
Apr 25, 2023
A gorgeously playful oddity glimmering with insight into ideology, photography, cartography, telegraphy, celebrity, solidarity, the flow of capital, the unruliness of time and the somehow noble lunacy of trying to tame such a massive concept into a brass doodad small enough to fit in a waistcoat pocket
By Jessica Kiang FULL REVIEW
83
Apr 25, 2023
Unrest leaves the mind purring. How did we, you begin wondering, get ourselves into all this? Humans, the film argues, have only ourselves to blame for constructing a system that would eventually imprison us, yet Unrest is not short on levity, and not least in its beautiful closing image or in the energizing sensation it leaves in the nervous system. If a quieter work of agitprop exists, you might struggle to hear it.
By Rory O'Connor FULL REVIEW
80
May 19, 2023
There’s a prevailing playfulness to many of the sequences which, like that properly placed unrest wheel, ensures a satisfying balance.
By Michael Rechtshaffen FULL REVIEW
80
Apr 25, 2023
An investment on the part of the audience is required, to focus in on the characters and to follow the dialogue. It’s not quite as dry as it sounds. There is a subtle humour in this singular approach, but like the dialogue and the drama (such that it is), it is sidelined.
By Wendy Ide FULL REVIEW
38
May 5, 2023
Unrest is an intriguing period piece but a flawed curio that never quite achieves its soul-stirring goals.
By Monica Castillo FULL REVIEW
38
May 2, 2023
Unrest could have been a lot of things that it’s not — “fascinating,” “illuminating,” “entertaining” and even “inspiring” among them. Instead, we’re treated to engrossing details that never add up to more than watching a second hand labor its way around a clock face.
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Production Company Cinédokké, Schweizer Radio und Fernsehen (SRF), Seeland Filmproduktion
Release Date May 5, 2023
Duration 1 h 33 m
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Awards

Swiss Film Prize
• 1 Win & 5 Nominations
Beijing International Film Festival
• 2 Wins & 3 Nominations
Berlin International Film Festival
• 1 Win & 2 Nominations

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