2012
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The Cinema Guild
1 h 26 m

2012
Not Rated
The Cinema Guild
1 h 26 m

Summary A richly textured essay film on landscape, art, history, life and loss, Patience (After Sebald) offers a unique exploration of the work and influence of internationally acclaimed writer W.G. Sebald (1944 – 2001). With contributions from major writers, artists and filmmakers, the film is structured around a walk through coastal East Angl...

Documentary

Directed By: Grant Gee

Written By: Winfried Georg Sebald

2012
Not Rated
The Cinema Guild
1 h 26 m

2012
Not Rated
The Cinema Guild
1 h 26 m

Patience (After Sebald)

Name: Patience (After Sebald)
Genre: Documentary
Released: 2012-05-11
Duration: 1 min 26 s
Rating: 75
Cast: Jonathan Pryce, Tacita Dean, William Firebrace, Dan Gretton, Barbara Hui

Metascore Generally Favorable Based on 9 Critic Reviews

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Directed By: Grant Gee

Written By: Winfried Georg Sebald

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The New York Times

May 10, 2012

If he is a self-revealing writer, it is not in the usual, confessional sense, but rather because he seems so strongly present in his books, with a personality that is both the source and aftereffect of the prose.

By A.O. Scott FULL REVIEW

Slant Magazine

May 8, 2012

A wide-ranging piece of literary criticism brought to vivid cinematic life, bursting with ideas and inspired visual translations of them.

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Variety

May 8, 2012

Gee follows Sebald's path with only occasional detours, while intermittently glimpsed talking heads fade in and out of artful black-and-white landscapes.

By Ronnie Scheib FULL REVIEW

Total Film

May 8, 2012

As Jonathan Pryce reads passages and academic voices take turns to chew over Sebald's visionary opus, B&W footage of country roadsides and wind-blasted coastlines turns rural Suffolk into something truly otherworldly.

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New York Post

May 11, 2012

A thoughtfully conceived and tastefully executed tribute to a venerated author.

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The Guardian

May 8, 2012

In keeping with the spirit of Sebald's writing, Gee's film is teasing, elegant and perhaps inevitably unresolved: an invitation as opposed to a destination.

By Xan Brooks FULL REVIEW

Empire

May 8, 2012

With so many films adapted from novels, it's nice to see cinema paying homage to unheralded greats of literature like Sebald. While this one often struggles to do justice to his sense of grandeur and poetry, it'll be manna for fans of the German's work.

By Ian Nathan FULL REVIEW

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Production Company Illuminations Films

Release Date May 11, 2012

Duration 1 h 26 m

Rating Not Rated

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William Firebrace

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Dan Gretton

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Barbara Hui

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Robert Macfarlane

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Christopher MacLehose

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Jeremy Millar

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Katie Mitchell

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Rick Moody

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Christopher Petit

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Adam Phillips

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Michael Silverblatt

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Iain Sinclair

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