The Grief of Others

Name: The Grief of Others
Genre: Drama
Released: November 2, 2018
Duration: 103 min
Rating: 78
Cast: Chris Conroy, Henry Gagliardi, Jenna Cooperman, Mike Faist, Oona Laurence

2018

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E.D. Distribution | Release Date: November 2, 2018 | Not Rated

Starring: Chris Conroy, Henry Gagliardi, Jenna Cooperman, Mike Faist, Oona Laurence, Rachel Dratch, Sonya Harum, Theo Iyer, Trevor St. John, Wendy Moniz

Summary: The Ryries have suffered a loss: the death of a baby just fifty-seven hours after his birth. Without words to express their grief, the parents, John and Ricky, try to return to their previous lives. The couple's children, ten-year-old Biscuit and thirteen-year-old Paul, responding to the unnamed tensions around them, begin to act out inThe Ryries have suffered a loss: the death of a baby just fifty-seven hours after his birth. Without words to express their grief, the parents, John and Ricky, try to return to their previous lives. The couple's children, ten-year-old Biscuit and thirteen-year-old Paul, responding to the unnamed tensions around them, begin to act out in exquisitely idiosyncratic ways. But as the family members scatter into private, isolating grief, an unexpected visitor arrives, and they find themselves growing more alert to the hurt, humor, warmth, and burdens of others—to the grief that is part of every human life but that also carries within it the power to draw us together.… Expand

Director: Patrick Wang

Genre(s): Drama

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 103 min

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Bilge Ebiri

Nov 1, 2018

It’s an artful portrait of a world that refuses the order we try to impose on it when we close ourselves off to heartache, doubt and pain. Read full review

Wes Greene

Oct 30, 2018

This a much leaner film in terms of narrative incident than In the Family, though it paves the way for Patrick Wang to step into new artistic terrain. Read full review

Justin Chang

Oct 31, 2018

More experimental in form and wobbly in execution than its predecessor, this searching adaptation of Leah Hager Cohen’s 2011 novel nonetheless evokes a family’s fragile inner life in ineffably moving fashion, capturing how distant and isolated parents and children can feel from one another even when living under the same roof Read full review

Sam Weisberg

Nov 1, 2018

Wang favors static, wide, one-take shots, to underscore the relentlessness of his characters’ suffering. But — like Jost — he also has a knack for primitive in-camera effects. The final shot is a triumph of both economy and feeling. Read full review

RogerEbert.com Matt Zoller Seitz

Nov 2, 2018

Wang's movie is empathetic enough not to pass negative judgment on the characters as they muddle through their experience. Read full review

Boyd van Hoeij

Oct 31, 2018

A step up in terms of complexity, with more subplots and a larger cast of protagonists to juggle and less instantly sympathetic characters or an evident cause to rally behind, this drama again offers many quiet, often character-driven rewards but struggles to become larger than the sum of its parts. Read full review

A.A. Dowd

Nov 2, 2018

It’s every bit as human-scaled as the filmmaker’s other work — but also, in its noble restraint, a little less involving. Read full review

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