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  • 2016
  • Not Rated
  • Slamdance Presents
  • 1 h 25 m
  • 2016
  • Not Rated
  • Slamdance Presents
  • 1 h 25 m
Embers

Summary The world as we know it has been forgotten. A decade after a global epidemic, those who remain suffer from lasting effects of the virus - retrograde and anterograde amnesia. The survivors navigate a decaying landscape, unable to recall the past or create new memories. Five interwoven stories each explore a different facet of life without...

Directed By: Claire Carré

Written By: Charles Spano, Claire Carré

  • 2016
  • Not Rated
  • Slamdance Presents
  • 1 h 25 m
  • 2016
  • Not Rated
  • Slamdance Presents
  • 1 h 25 m

Embers

Metascore Mixed or Average Based on 4 Critic Reviews
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Summary The world as we know it has been forgotten. A decade after a global epidemic, those who remain suffer from lasting effects of the virus - retrograde and anterograde amnesia. The survivors navigate a decaying landscape, unable to recall the past or create new memories. Five interwoven stories each explore a different facet of life without...

Directed By: Claire Carré

Written By: Charles Spano, Claire Carré

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70
Aug 5, 2016
While one wishes Carré, who shares screenplay credit with Charles Spano, might have hung those stirring visuals on more involving plotting, Embers nevertheless makes a strong, not to mention timely, impression.
By Michael Rechtshaffen FULL REVIEW
60
Aug 1, 2016
Embers strains for a philosophical profundity that eludes it. And despite its brief running time, so little actually happens in the plot that it feels much longer than it is. But the film has many resonant moments.
By Frank Scheck FULL REVIEW
50
Aug 1, 2016
Embers offers a series of compelling premises and never follows through on them, content to drift along on its characters’ dull malaise and allow self-conscious visual poetry to stand in for real emotion.
By Scott Tobias FULL REVIEW
50
Aug 1, 2016
Embers attempts to be a complicated dissection of a possible world not too far ahead of us, but it lacks the imagination to make us soar along with its vision.
By Jordan Ruimy FULL REVIEW

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Production Company Papaya Films, Bunker Features, Chaotic Good
Release Date Aug 5, 2016
Duration 1 h 25 m
Rating Not Rated
Genres
Tagline The world without memory.
Website http://www.embersmovie.com/
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Awards

Sarasota Film Festival
• 4 Wins & 5 Nominations
New Orleans Film Festival
• 2 Wins & 2 Nominations
Buenos Aires Rojo Sangre
• 2 Wins & 2 Nominations

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