Three Minutes: A Lengthening

Name: Three Minutes: A Lengthening
Genre: Documentary
Released: August 19, 2022
Duration: 69 min
Rating: 88
Cast: Helena Bonham Carter

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Super LTD | Release Date: August 19, 2022 | PG

Starring: Helena Bonham Carter

Summary: So long as we are watching history, history is not over. Three minutes of footage, shot by David Kurtz in 1938, are the only moving images remaining of the Jewish inhabitants of Nasielsk, Poland before the Holocaust. Three Minutes: A Lengthening explores the human stories hidden within the celluloid. [Super LTD]

Director: Bianca Stigter

Genre(s): Documentary

Rating: PG

Runtime: 69 min

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Peter Rainer

Sep 26, 2022

The film medium has often been discussed in academic terms as a vehicle to contain the passage of time. But “Three Minutes” does much more than that. Although it raises all sorts of issues about the nature of the film image and how it can affect us, it is also the least theoretical of movies. We are bearing witness. Read full review

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RogerEbert.com Matt Zoller Seitz

Aug 22, 2022

Bianca Stigter's documentary Three Minutes: A Lengthening is a great film about filmmaking and a quietly devastating memorial for lives long gone. Read full review

Justin Chang

Aug 18, 2022

Three Minutes: A Lengthening is a snapshot, a memorial, a knotty philosophical detective story and a devastating account of Nazi atrocities. It’s also an extended rumination on the illusory, entropic nature of the cinematic medium itself. Read full review

Chris Evangelista

Jan 27, 2022

Three Minutes – A Lengthening is not a ghost story, but it still feels haunting. Read full review

IndieWire Nicholas Barber

Jul 26, 2022

It grips the attention from start to finish. Read full review

Stephanie Zacharek

Aug 22, 2022

If Stigter’s film is at times somber, it’s more often ruefully poetic. Read full review

Elizabeth Weitzman

Aug 17, 2022

The truth is that even at 71 minutes much of this film feels padded, as though Stigter couldn’t let go of the subject but also wasn’t sure how to expand it further. Because Kurtz’s concept is so moving, however, the film retains much of the power he brought to his book. Read full review

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RoslynBernstein

Sep 17, 2022

Brilliant movie because it avoids talking heads. Shows real people in Nasielsk, Poland. Real buildings and streets. Town reminds me of Rozvadow, Poland, the shtetl in my new novel, The Girl Who Counted Numbers, out October 12th, Amazon. The Jews of Rozvadow lived ordinary lives and wereBrilliant movie because it avoids talking heads. Shows real people in Nasielsk, Poland. Real buildings and streets. Town reminds me of Rozvadow, Poland, the shtetl in my new novel, The Girl Who Counted Numbers, out October 12th, Amazon. The Jews of Rozvadow lived ordinary lives and were murdered by the Nazis, too.… Expand

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