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  • 2018
  • PG
  • 4th Row Films
  • 1 h 52 m
  • 2018
  • PG
  • 4th Row Films
  • 1 h 52 m
Bisbee '17

Summary An old mining town on the Arizona-Mexico border finally reckons with its darkest day: the deportation of 1200 immigrant miners exactly 100 years ago. Locals collaborate to stage recreations of their controversial past.

Directed By: Robert Greene

Written By: Charles Bethea, Ryan Bruce, Chris Dietz, Susan Wille, Robert Greene

  • 2018
  • PG
  • 4th Row Films
  • 1 h 52 m
  • 2018
  • PG
  • 4th Row Films
  • 1 h 52 m

Bisbee '17

Metascore Universal Acclaim Based on 22 Critic Reviews
must-see
87
User Score Mixed or Average Based on 9 User Ratings
5.3
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Summary An old mining town on the Arizona-Mexico border finally reckons with its darkest day: the deportation of 1200 immigrant miners exactly 100 years ago. Locals collaborate to stage recreations of their controversial past.

Directed By: Robert Greene

Written By: Charles Bethea, Ryan Bruce, Chris Dietz, Susan Wille, Robert Greene

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Universal Acclaim Based on 22 Critic Reviews
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100
Sep 5, 2018
The film's epic canvas invigorates Robert Greene, who fuses a procedural documentary, in the key of Frederick Wiseman’s films, with tableaux that wouldn’t be out of place in a horror western.
By Chuck Bowen FULL REVIEW
90
Sep 26, 2018
One of the pleasurable discoveries of this continually surprising movie is that artifice can be the most direct route to the truth.
By Justin Chang FULL REVIEW

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33% Negative
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90
Sep 3, 2018
The director purposefully pulls us this way and that, weaving cinematic spells and then yanking us out of them; as viewers, we are both inside and outside the story.
By Bilge Ebiri FULL REVIEW
88
Sep 5, 2018
Bisbee '17 is also about the artifice of storytelling and the alchemy of acting, and that magic moment when we decide to forget that we're seeing performers pretending to be long-dead people.
By Matt Zoller Seitz FULL REVIEW
83
Jun 27, 2018
Bisbee ’17 collapses past and present into one another, and in doing so achieves a singularly strange and unsettling vision of apparently intractable American hatreds.
By Daniel Schindel FULL REVIEW
80
Aug 29, 2018
Greene is concerned with Western mythology and the interplay of past and present in Bisbee's self-dramatization. His intense focus on individuals can feel limiting in terms of the overall truth-and-reconciliation dynamic, but it also leads to some powerful moments. And the story's contemporary resonance couldn't be clearer.
By Sheri Linden FULL REVIEW
75
Sep 4, 2018
This one transforms practically the whole of Bisbee into a memorably uneasy amateur theatrical production.
By Mike D'Angelo FULL REVIEW
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Production Company Doc Society
Release Date Sep 5, 2018
Duration 1 h 52 m
Rating PG
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Tagline The Past is Present
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Awards

Cinema Eye Honors Awards, US
• 5 Nominations
Athens International Film Festival
• 1 Win & 2 Nominations
Gotham Awards
• 2 Nominations

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