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The Body Remembers When The World Broke Open 7.0 2019 Movie

The Body Remembers When The World Broke Open

Dir. Elle-Máijá Tailfeathers & Elle-Maija Tailfeathers · Canada, Norway · English

Brilliantly and painfully realistic

Kanopy

Our take by The Staff

Shot almost entirely in one take and on a tiny budget, and yet the central performance in this movie is still better than most big-budget dramas I’ve seen this year.

Two indigenous women, one upper-class and the other impoverished, meet on the day that the rich one gets an IUD and the other one, pregnant, finds herself kicked out of her home. They spend a few hours together: they talk, they take cabs, walk, etc; and you as a viewer, follow them throughout their intimate yet difficult moments.

If you like subtle movies that showcase how people live and interact with one another, beyond plot-obsessiveness, this is for you.

What happens

When Áila encounters a young Indigenous woman, barefoot and crying in the rain on the side of a busy street, she soon discovers that this young woman, Rosie, has just escaped a violent assault at the hands of her boyfriend. Áila decides to bring Rosie home with her and over the course of the evening, the two navigate the aftermath of this traumatic event.

What the critics said

Notable Critics

"It's rare to find a film of such bottomless depths."

— Sophie Monks Kaufman

"Establishes an immediate, urgent language all its own to confront the problem of domestic abuse, making the issue personal for both the characters and their audience."

— Peter Debruge

Awards

Berlin

1 nom

Nominated: Official Selection

Comments

  2. Very slow moving, and while the contrast between the haves and not couldn’t have been more apparent, the hopelessness was suffocating to me. I did not see a way out for her especially one that she seemed interested in taking 🙁

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