A Night of Knowing Nothing
Cinema Guild | Release Date: February 11, 2022 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
87
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Universal acclaim based on 9 Critic Reviews
Positive:
9
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0
Negative:
0
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100
Chicago TribuneMichael PhillipsFeb 23, 2022
The movie expresses so much, so delicately, about precarious young hearts, the storm clouds of nationalist politics and, most of all, the possibility and necessity of artistic freedom. Read full review
91
IndieWireSiddhant AdlakhaOct 5, 2021
This combination of lively image and mournful narration imbues the camera’s fly-on-the-wall perspective with a sense of melancholy. As life unfolds with verve and passion, the spectral narrator, L, exists at a remove, as if she were both present amidst the frolic, and distant from it, her heartbreak leaving her unable to get involved. Read full review
90
Little White LiesMarina AshiotiApr 12, 2022
Through disrupting linear time, Kapadia’s speculative, poetic rumination on memory, political reality and personal association transforms the viewing experience into something transcendent. Read full review
90
VarietyJessica KiangApr 5, 2022
Only a few seconds into Payal Kapadia’s shimmery, poetic essay doc A Night of Knowing Nothing, it feels like we are a few hours deep into the excavation of someone else’s memories. Read full review
83
The Film StageDavid KatzFeb 9, 2022
Through its slippery cinematic language and elusive point-of-view, Kapadia depicts a moment happening urgently in the film’s present-day strand––a wave of anti-government student protests and their resulting crackdown––and treats it like memory, which we know operates as anything but a direct mental recording device. Read full review
80
The GuardianPhuong LeApr 4, 2022
Love for the moving image – and love for artistic creativity – marches hand in hand with the fight for political freedom. Read full review
80
CineVueChristopher MachellApr 1, 2022
A Night of Knowing Nothing is a celebration not merely of resistance, but also of joy and art as a political act in the face of despair. Read full review
75
The A.V. ClubLawrence GarciaFeb 9, 2022
Because of Kapadia’s collage-like approach, A Night Of Knowing Nothing occasionally feels loose and shapeless. But there is a discernible trajectory here. Read full review
75
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)Aparita BhandariSep 10, 2021
Right from its opening frame, there’s a lyrical, dreamlike quality to Payal Kapadia’s debut feature. Read full review
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