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  • 2018
  • Icarus Films
  • 2 h 7 m
  • 2018
  • Icarus Films
  • 2 h 7 m

Summary Made following the discovery of amateur footage shot in China in 1966 during the first and most radical stage of the Cultural Revolution, In the Intense Now speaks to the fleeting nature of moments of great intensity. Scenes of China are set alongside archival images of the events of 1968 in France, Czechoslovakia, and, to a lesser exten...

Directed By: João Moreira Salles

Written By: João Moreira Salles

  • 2018
  • Icarus Films
  • 2 h 7 m
  • 2018
  • Icarus Films
  • 2 h 7 m

In the Intense Now

Metascore Generally Favorable Based on 7 Critic Reviews
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Summary Made following the discovery of amateur footage shot in China in 1966 during the first and most radical stage of the Cultural Revolution, In the Intense Now speaks to the fleeting nature of moments of great intensity. Scenes of China are set alongside archival images of the events of 1968 in France, Czechoslovakia, and, to a lesser exten...

Directed By: João Moreira Salles

Written By: João Moreira Salles

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Metascore
Generally Favorable Based on 7 Critic Reviews
72
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6 Reviews
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14% Negative
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Generally Favorable Based on 7 Critic Reviews
72
86% Positive
6 Reviews
0% Mixed
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14% Negative
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90
Apr 19, 2018
The combination of archival bounty with Salles' touching analysis has a hypnotic effect, serving up the past plus reflection, garnished with a resonant melancholy about the ebb and flow of uprisings.
By Robert Abele FULL REVIEW
83
Apr 27, 2018
It takes a while to get into the ruminative rhythm of this film. But it’s worth it.
By Peter Rainer FULL REVIEW
80
Jan 31, 2018
Those dreading 50th-anniversary greatest-hits medleys will find solace, enlightenment and surprise in João Moreira Salles’s In the Intense Now, a bittersweet, ruminative documentary essay composed of footage from the era accompanied by thoughtful, disarmingly personal voice-over narration.
By A.O. Scott FULL REVIEW
75
May 16, 2018
Holding it all together is his voice-over narration: always intelligent and thoughtful, sometimes wistful, occasionally navel-gazing annoying. Even when annoying, the narration sounds great, thanks to the murmury musicality of Salles’s Portuguese.
By Mark Feeney FULL REVIEW
70
Apr 19, 2018
Flitting between demonstrations, recorded addresses and interviews from both sides gives rise to highly relevant observations and intriguing asides — and even when they’re obvious, they’re astute.
By Sarah Ward FULL REVIEW
70
Jan 31, 2018
Immersive, involving, sometimes revelatory, sometimes curiously naive, and on occasion thuddingly obvious, João Moreira Salles’s found-footage study of revolutionaries in the streets of Paris, Prague, and other countries in 1968 would stand as an invaluable assemblage simply on the basis of its archival finds alone.
By Alan Scherstuhl FULL REVIEW
38
Jan 30, 2018
Although João Moreira Salles tries to tap into the pleasurable elements inherent to the essayistic as a cinematic form, such as making the merging of intimate and social reality poetically visible, his storylines never quite gel.
By Diego Semerene FULL REVIEW

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Production Company VideoFilmes
Release Date Jan 31, 2018
Duration 2 h 7 m
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Awards

Prêmio Guarani
• 1 Win & 5 Nominations
Cinéma du Réel
• 3 Wins & 3 Nominations
Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival
• 1 Win & 2 Nominations

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