Distant Constellation

Name: Distant Constellation
Genre: Documentary
Released: November 2, 2018
Duration: 80 min
Rating: 65
Cast: Selma

2018

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Grasshopper Film | Release Date: November 2, 2018 | NR

Starring: Selma

Summary: Distant Constellation introduces us to the colorful residents of a Turkish retirement home, a community made up of pranksters, historians, artists and would-be Casanovas.

Director: Shevaun Mizrahi

Genre(s): Documentary

Rating: NR

Runtime: 80 min

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Diego Semerene

Oct 31, 2018

The film exposes the idea of places as metaphors, mirrors, and symptoms for the people who inhabit them. Read full review

John DeFore

Jan 14, 2020

Far from the filmmaker in both life experience and proximity to the cosmic unknown, the subjects making up this constellation — elderly men and women who evince no self-consciousness around her — are diverse enough to support any number of theories about this graceful film's ultimate meaning. Read full review

Mark Asch

Feb 14, 2022

Mizrahi films one-on-one interviews with a shallow depth of field, so that her subjects appear with the occluded intensity of their own remembrances. Read full review

The Guardian Cath Clarke

Aug 16, 2018

It’s a thoughtful, dream-like film, but, in the end, I’m not sure what Distant Constellation is saying about age or memory. Read full review

Simi Horwitz

Nov 1, 2018

The contrast between young and old, life ending, life continuing, is leaned on too heavily. Read full review

Ben Kenigsberg

Nov 1, 2018

Said to be intended as a reflection on shifts in Turkish history and identity, it is too diffuse and withholding to add up to a cogent result. Read full review

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