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  • 1998
  • Not Rated
  • The Criterion Channel
  • 1 h 28 m
  • 1998
  • Not Rated
  • The Criterion Channel
  • 1 h 28 m
August 32nd on Earth

Summary Young Simone is involved in a near fatal car crash, and as she questions her mortality, she also decides to have a baby. Her candidate for a father is her best friend Phillipe who happens to be seeing someone. He agrees, as long as they conceive in Salt Lake City, in the desert. The trip teaches many lessons about love, solitude, and sel...

Directed By: Denis Villeneuve

Written By: Denis Villeneuve

  • 1998
  • Not Rated
  • The Criterion Channel
  • 1 h 28 m
  • 1998
  • Not Rated
  • The Criterion Channel
  • 1 h 28 m

August 32nd on Earth

Metascore Generally Favorable Based on 5 Critic Reviews
61
User Score Mixed or Average Based on 6 User Ratings
5.7
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Summary Young Simone is involved in a near fatal car crash, and as she questions her mortality, she also decides to have a baby. Her candidate for a father is her best friend Phillipe who happens to be seeing someone. He agrees, as long as they conceive in Salt Lake City, in the desert. The trip teaches many lessons about love, solitude, and sel...

Directed By: Denis Villeneuve

Written By: Denis Villeneuve

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Metascore
Generally Favorable Based on 5 Critic Reviews
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40% Positive
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60% Mixed
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0% Negative
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Metascore
Generally Favorable Based on 5 Critic Reviews
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60% Mixed
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Charming and intriguing tale of undeclared love, full of haunting set pieces that stayed in my mind for hours afterwards. [11 June 1999, p.15]
By Peter Bradshaw FULL REVIEW
63
All this is engrossing. Stylistically and visually, Villeneuve flashes his talent to draw us in. However, narratively and thematically, he seems to be cheating. [18 Dec 1998, p.D10]
By Rick Groen FULL REVIEW
60
An appealing though ultimately slight drama about a young woman who is thrown into an emotional tizzy after surviving a bad car crash.
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58
August 32nd on Earth takes way too long to get going, but the chemistry between its leads helps things along. More than anything, however, it’s the incredible economy of Villeneuve’s images that keeps things together, his shots becoming tighter and more expressive as the story falls apart.
By David Ehrlich FULL REVIEW
50
There are striking images here (especially in the scenes outside Salt Lake City), Martin gives a very likeable performance, and individual scenes display intelligence and wit. But it doesn't hang together very well, jump-cutting between slightly portentous artiness and light comedy, and never really adding up to very much at all.
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5.7
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Mixed or Average Based on 6 User Ratings
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17% Negative
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Production Company Max Films Productions
Release Date Nov 18, 1998
Duration 1 h 28 m
Rating Not Rated
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Website https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t4_s82xvQ80
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Awards

Jutra Awards
• 1 Win & 7 Nominations
Namur International Festival of French-Speaking Film
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
Toronto Film Critics Association Awards
• 1 Nomination

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