Counting

Name: Counting
Genre: Documentary
Released: July 31, 2015
Duration: 111 min
Rating: 79

2015

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Cinema Guild | Release Date: July 31, 2015 | Not Rated

Summary: In fifteen linked chapters shot in locations ranging from Moscow to New York to Istanbul, Counting merges city symphony, diary film, and personal/political essay to create a vivid portrait of contemporary life. Perhaps the most personal of Cohen's films, Counting measures street life, light and time, noting not only surveillance andIn fifteen linked chapters shot in locations ranging from Moscow to New York to Istanbul, Counting merges city symphony, diary film, and personal/political essay to create a vivid portrait of contemporary life. Perhaps the most personal of Cohen's films, Counting measures street life, light and time, noting not only surveillance and overdevelopment but resistance and its phantoms as manifested in music, animals and everyday magic. [Cinema Guild]… Expand

Director: Jem Cohen

Genre(s): Documentary

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 111 min

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Alan Scherstuhl

Jul 30, 2015

What surprises (a little) and fascinates (a lot) are the town-to-town commonalities Counting invites you to appraise. Read full review

David Rooney

Jul 30, 2015

This is the kind of contemplative cinematheque piece that washes pleasurably over you, inviting the viewer to tune in or out, to free-associate or locate the subtle connections and recurring themes as Cohen trains his restless, inquisitive gaze on faces and features that represent a wide spectrum of life. Read full review

Adam Nayman

Jul 30, 2015

His film is vivid and yet elusive. He shoots first so that we might ask questions later. Read full review

Manohla Dargis

Jul 30, 2015

A wistful meditation on the world, its beauties, mysteries and injustices. Read full review

RogerEbert.com Brian Tallerico

Jul 31, 2015

The result is a challenging work that can be both exhilarating and grueling in its deliberate pace. Cohen is an undeniably gifted filmmaker, even if the sum total of this piece isn’t quite as interesting as its parts. Read full review

The Playlist Jessica Kiang

Jul 30, 2015

There's a kind of helpless humility to the presentation of these urban impressions, almost a kind of democracy, that allows you to engage as much or as little as you like with them. Read full review

Clayton Dillard

Jul 27, 2015

The poetic pretenses are compounded by a sledgehammer insistence on elusive and irreducible moments as inherently beautiful. Read full review

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