In the Intense Now
Icarus Films | Release Date: January 31, 2018 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
72
METASCORE
Generally favorable reviews based on 7 Critic Reviews
Positive:
6
Mixed:
0
Negative:
1

Critic Reviews

Critic scorePublicationBy date
90
Los Angeles TimesRobert AbeleApr 19, 2018
The combination of archival bounty with Salles' touching analysis has a hypnotic effect, serving up the past plus reflection, garnished with a resonant melancholy about the ebb and flow of uprisings. Read full review
83
Christian Science MonitorPeter RainerApr 27, 2018
It takes a while to get into the ruminative rhythm of this film. But it’s worth it. Read full review
80
The New York TimesA.O. ScottJan 31, 2018
Those dreading 50th-anniversary greatest-hits medleys will find solace, enlightenment and surprise in João Moreira Salles’s In the Intense Now, a bittersweet, ruminative documentary essay composed of footage from the era accompanied by thoughtful, disarmingly personal voice-over narration. Read full review
75
Boston GlobeMark FeeneyMay 16, 2018
Holding it all together is his voice-over narration: always intelligent and thoughtful, sometimes wistful, occasionally navel-gazing annoying. Even when annoying, the narration sounds great, thanks to the murmury musicality of Salles’s Portuguese. Read full review
70
Screen DailySarah WardApr 19, 2018
Flitting between demonstrations, recorded addresses and interviews from both sides gives rise to highly relevant observations and intriguing asides — and even when they’re obvious, they’re astute. Read full review
70
Village VoiceAlan ScherstuhlJan 31, 2018
Immersive, involving, sometimes revelatory, sometimes curiously naive, and on occasion thuddingly obvious, João Moreira Salles’s found-footage study of revolutionaries in the streets of Paris, Prague, and other countries in 1968 would stand as an invaluable assemblage simply on the basis of its archival finds alone. Read full review
38
Slant MagazineDiego SemereneJan 30, 2018
Although João Moreira Salles tries to tap into the pleasurable elements inherent to the essayistic as a cinematic form, such as making the merging of intimate and social reality poetically visible, his storylines never quite gel. Read full review
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