Futura

Name: Futura
Genre: Documentary
Released: January 28, 2022
Duration: 105 min
Rating: 73

2022

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Grasshopper Film | Release Date: January 28, 2022 | Not Rated

Summary: Following in the footsteps of a long line of documentarians, a collective of three Italian filmmakers known for their politically acute cinema—Pietro Marcello (Martin Eden), Francesco Munzi (Black Souls), and Alice Rohrwacher (Happy as Lazzaro)—set out to interview a cross-section of their nation’s youth about their hopes, dreams, and fearsFollowing in the footsteps of a long line of documentarians, a collective of three Italian filmmakers known for their politically acute cinema—Pietro Marcello (Martin Eden), Francesco Munzi (Black Souls), and Alice Rohrwacher (Happy as Lazzaro)—set out to interview a cross-section of their nation’s youth about their hopes, dreams, and fears for the future. With today’s political divisions, socioeconomic unease, overreliance on technology, and global weather crisis, the conversations they foster feel particularly urgent—these 15- to 20-year-olds together ask the implicit question: is there a future at all? At the same time, the intelligence, expressiveness, and foresight evinced by these teenagers in this moving and masterful film kindles a form of hope in itself. [Grasshopper Film]… Expand

Director: Alice Rohrwacher and Francesco Munzi and Pietro Marcello

Genre(s): Documentary

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 105 min

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A.O. Scott

Jan 27, 2022

Anyone with a heart will be stirred by the generous, critical, humanist spirit shared by the kids in front of the camera and the grown-ups on the other side. Read full review

Tara Brady

Jul 8, 2022

The inclusion of older footage from the Armando Diaz school, where Genoa police kettled protests during the 2001 G8 summit, reminds us that previous generations have equally hoped for change. Read full review

The Observer (UK) Wendy Ide

Jul 19, 2022

Some talk eloquently, some glare at the camera with cagey mistrust. But the point of this worthwhile and frequently fascinating project is that all have the opportunity to be heard. Read full review

Trevor Johnston

Jul 22, 2022

Too often here it’s the mouthy ones who get to hold court, which is to be expected, yet the Genoa sequence shows the dramatic dividends from a more focused approach. Read full review

Lawrence Garcia

Jan 26, 2022

Self-reflexiveness is no guarantee of value in a documentary, and Futura works perfectly well as cinematic reportage. Still, the film does at times feel slack and arbitrary—a bit like a census that no one could argue is unimportant but which nonetheless has the feel of a box-ticking exercise. Read full review

The Guardian Cath Clarke

Jul 6, 2022

In the end, it’s a film with a melancholic feel, which probably has a lot to do with its timing. Read full review

The Film Stage Michael Frank

Sep 30, 2021

Futura lives in the past and the present, not the future––attempting to say much more about what has made these people this way, not what they will do about it. For all of the talk about the future, this documentary has nothing insightful to say about it. Read full review

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