I Only Rest in the Storm
Météore Films | Release Date: TBA CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
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Mixed or average reviews based on 4 Critic Reviews
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IndieWireMiriam BalanescuDec 9, 2025
Overall, the big swings this wending odyssey takes in merging genres and weighty ideas do pay off — it’s a gargantuan, continent-crossing feat. Read full review
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Screen DailyBoyd van HoeijDec 9, 2025
Pinho’s interest in neo-colonial issues is tackled with a lucid gaze and appropriate room for local perspectives. Read full review
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The Film StageLeonardo GoiDec 9, 2025
That I Only Rest in the Storm should overflow with ideas is not in itself an indictment; it’s that the film should gradually shed so many of its mysteries and ambiguities. Read full review
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Slant MagazineDiego SemereneDec 9, 2025
Whatever the post-colonial lessons are, I Only Rest in the Storm’s characters articulate them too evidently, as if preemptively justifying the making of a film in or about “Africa” on the condition that the white man’s presence is relentlessly denounced. Read full review
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