Concerning Violence

Name: Concerning Violence
Genre: Drama, History, Documentary
Released: December 5, 2014
Duration: 78 min
Rating: 80

2014

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Kino Lorber | Release Date: December 5, 2014 | Not Rated

Summary: From the director of The Black Power Mixtape comes a bold and fresh visual narrative on Africa, based on newly discovered archive material covering the struggle for liberation from colonial rule in the late '60s and '70s, accompanied by text from Frantz Fanon's The Wretched of the Earth. [Kino Lorber]

Director: Göran Olsson

Genre(s): Drama, History, Documentary

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 78 min

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Alan Scherstuhl

Dec 2, 2014

A commanding indictment of the exploitative nature of geopolitics, and of Europe's and the U.S.'s abuse of native peoples around the world. Read full review

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Patrick Gamble

Nov 22, 2014

An exercise in assigning valuable historical context to scenes of brutality, Concerning Violence is a lesson in understanding a continuing colonial condition, the roots and complexities of which are often concealed and simplified by news coverage of poverty and conflict. Read full review

Keith Uhlich

Dec 3, 2014

In other words, Concerning Violence isn’t out to soothe its audience with platitudes about peace, love, and understanding. Its exploration of an entrenched system that breeds generations of oppression and violence is extremely upsetting yet still highly rewarding. Read full review

Boyd van Hoeij

Nov 22, 2014

It's a tough and cerebral but finally illuminating film. Read full review

Joshua Rothkopf

Nov 22, 2014

Olsson requires us to connect the dots to today's struggles (a missed opportunity), but his discoveries are more than sufficient. Read full review

Kenji Fujishima

Dec 1, 2014

Here is a film that isn't afraid to risk didacticism in order to put across its vision of the debilitating physical and psychological effects of colonialism. Read full review

RogerEbert.com Godfrey Cheshire

Dec 5, 2014

On both levels of the film, the archival and the textual, there’s much that’s fascinating and worthwhile. What’s regrettable is the refusal to contextualize and explore the ongoing ramifications of what we see and hear. Read full review

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