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  • 2016
  • Icarus Films
  • 1 h 30 m
  • 2016
  • Icarus Films
  • 1 h 30 m

Summary The Seasons in Quincy is the result of a five-year project by Tilda Swinton, Colin MacCabe and Christopher Roth to produce a portrait of the intellectual and storyteller John Berger. In 1973 John Berger abandoned the metropolis to live in the tiny Alpine village of Quincy. He realized that subsistence peasant farming, which had sustained...

Directed By: Bartek Dziadosz, Colin MacCabe, Christopher Roth, Tilda Swinton

Written By: Ben Lerner, Tilda Swinton

  • 2016
  • Icarus Films
  • 1 h 30 m
  • 2016
  • Icarus Films
  • 1 h 30 m

The Seasons in Quincy: Four Portraits of John Berger

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Summary The Seasons in Quincy is the result of a five-year project by Tilda Swinton, Colin MacCabe and Christopher Roth to produce a portrait of the intellectual and storyteller John Berger. In 1973 John Berger abandoned the metropolis to live in the tiny Alpine village of Quincy. He realized that subsistence peasant farming, which had sustained...

Directed By: Bartek Dziadosz, Colin MacCabe, Christopher Roth, Tilda Swinton

Written By: Ben Lerner, Tilda Swinton

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Mixed or Average Based on 9 Critic Reviews
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Mixed or Average Based on 9 Critic Reviews
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75
Aug 26, 2016
It insists that it's in moments of small talk, between life's larger events, that one finds vitality.
By Clayton Dillard FULL REVIEW
70
Aug 30, 2016
The Seasons in Quincy: Four Portraits of John Berger is a challenging, sometimes poignant engagement with the man and his work.
By Glenn Kenny FULL REVIEW
60
Jun 19, 2017
Some prior interest in Berger would help, but even newcomers should find this an infectious portrait of independent thought and living.
By Dave Calhoun FULL REVIEW
60
Sep 1, 2016
Taken together, the shorts offer some scraps on Berger the man and the artist and thinker without really supplying a full overview, while also exploring some of his main preoccupations in ways that would benefit from at least some prior knowledge of his work.
By Boyd van Hoeij FULL REVIEW
60
Sep 1, 2016
As a collection, The Seasons in Quincy certainly hangs together; it’s also an absolutely inspired way of approaching its subject. If the outcome is a little uneven; well, that’s the price that sometimes has to be paid.
By Andrew Pulver FULL REVIEW
50
Sep 1, 2016
The film can be rough going for those who know little of Berger’s work. That’s especially true of the second part, a stupefying collage about Berger’s home in rural Quincy, France.
By Farran Smith Nehme FULL REVIEW
50
Aug 31, 2016
A warm and heartfelt but too often desultory and disorganized tribute to the down-to-earth intellectual.
By Melissa Anderson FULL REVIEW

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Production Company The Derek Jarman Lab
Release Date Aug 31, 2016
Duration 1 h 30 m
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