Chronic

Name: Chronic
Genre: Drama
Released: September 23, 2016
Duration: 93 min
Rating: 69

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Monument Releasing | Release Date: September 23, 2016 | R

Summary: David (Tim Roth) is an in-home nurse who works with terminally ill patients. Efficient and dedicated to his profession, David develops strong, even intimate, relationships with each person he cares for. But outside of his work, David is ineffectual, awkward, and reserved – effects of his chronic depression – and he needs each patient asDavid (Tim Roth) is an in-home nurse who works with terminally ill patients. Efficient and dedicated to his profession, David develops strong, even intimate, relationships with each person he cares for. But outside of his work, David is ineffectual, awkward, and reserved – effects of his chronic depression – and he needs each patient as much as they need him. Having long carried a burden of guilt and remorse, David must face his past in order to heal.… Expand

Director: Michel Franco

Genre(s): Drama

Rating: R

Runtime: 93 min

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Stephen Holden

Sep 22, 2016

Chronic ends with a sudden, terrible slap in the face that is a final blow to your equilibrium. It is left up to the viewer to decide whether it is a cheap stunt or an ultimate moment of truth. I vote for the latter. Read full review

Tim Grierson

May 24, 2015

Tim Roth gives a meticulously withdrawn performance that speaks volumes, and although filmmaker Michel Franco can be too fussy in his starkly somber design, Chronic is nonetheless a captivating work. Read full review

Time Out London Guy Lodge

Feb 15, 2016

Franco’s script teases out the character’s tangled ambiguities with immaculate control: even as the story proceeds in the lowest of keys, our nerves never settle. Read full review

David Rooney

May 24, 2015

While Chronic is a depressing sit, it's a sobering window into the self-sacrifice and psychological strain of the caregiver, as well as a provocative contribution to the ongoing debate about humane assisted suicide. Read full review

The Playlist Oliver Lyttelton

May 26, 2015

It's a stinker of an ending tacked on to a disappointing third act (which is at least lifted up by Bartlett's performance), and it's a shame because so much of what went on before was so good: a tender, unsentimental, unexploitative look at an existence that all too many people have, and what it is to be someone who looks after them. Read full review

John Bleasdale

May 24, 2015

An unnecessarily loud ending is an unwelcome jolt that will likely divide audiences down the middle, but Chronic is an otherwise unique character study of endearing depth. Read full review

Katy Waldman

Sep 22, 2016

At 93 minutes, Chronic felt unbearable to sit through, at once intimate and difficult, boring and acute. Its tone aspires to the numbness of a limb pinned for too long under a heavy weight. Read full review

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alejandro970

Sep 15, 2019

Tim Roth is stimulating as a introvert in-home nurse who aids terminal-ill patients. With no music score or dull sentimentalities, and with a sharp, sudden final act, it's a analysis of the sense of life of terminal patients.

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TVJerry

Oct 10, 2016

The majority of this film shows an in-home nurse (Tim Roth) helping his terminally-ill patients: washing them, administering their medication, offering support. Director Michel Franco (no relationship) sets his camera in static wide shots and lets the action (or lack thereof) play out inThe majority of this film shows an in-home nurse (Tim Roth) helping his terminally-ill patients: washing them, administering their medication, offering support. Director Michel Franco (no relationship) sets his camera in static wide shots and lets the action (or lack thereof) play out in real time…often for minutes with no cutting. This paints a touching, sometimes heartbreaking picture of life near its end, but with bleak mundanity and unvarnished objectivity. There's a bit of backstory, but it's never fully explained and the abrupt ending (which I guessed) is an out-of-the-blue shocker with no justification. Besides the harrowing portrayals of the effects of extreme illness, this film offers little in the way of character development or bearable pacing.… Expand

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