Life in a Day 2020

Name: Life in a Day 2020
Genre: Documentary
Released: February 6, 2021
Duration: 90 min
Rating: 54
Cast: Abdulla Basha, Frally Fratelli, Gredivel Vasquez, Karim Jovian, Mário Filipe Neves

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YouTube | Release Date (Streaming): February 6, 2021 | Not Rated

Starring: Abdulla Basha, Frally Fratelli, Gredivel Vasquez, Karim Jovian, Mário Filipe Neves, Sagar Kadadevarmath

Summary: On July 25th, 2020, people all over the world filmed their lives and shared their stories to be part of a documentary film. When all the submissions were tallied, the filmmakers had received over 300,000 videos from 192 countries. The result is a film about love, death, heartbreak, and hope that looks beyond geography and circumstance toOn July 25th, 2020, people all over the world filmed their lives and shared their stories to be part of a documentary film. When all the submissions were tallied, the filmmakers had received over 300,000 videos from 192 countries. The result is a film about love, death, heartbreak, and hope that looks beyond geography and circumstance to explore what connects us as humans.… Expand

Director: Kevin Macdonald and Mário Filipe Neves

Genre(s): Documentary

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 90 min

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Richard Roeper

Feb 11, 2021

Life in a Day 2020 is an affirmation of life, of the simple joys experienced by citizens of the planet over the course of a single day. We’d never have met any of them without this film, and we’re grateful for the opportunity to get to know them a little bit. Read full review

G. Allen Johnson

Feb 25, 2021

There are so many rich, colorful scenes that it’s a worthy watch just as an ethnographic record of our planet in a moment of time. Read full review

Michael Rechtshaffen

Feb 11, 2021

Even as the concept of crowdsourcing isn’t as novel as it was at the time of the film’s predecessor and the 90-minute running time can feel unnecessarily expansive given the repetition of those pandemic-related sequences, “Life in a Day 2020” nevertheless serves as a telling time capsule. The world has never felt so compact. Read full review

The Telegraph Robbie Collin

Feb 11, 2021

Macdonald and his team pull out enough affecting stories to hold your interest, whose scopes range from sweeping to intimate. Read full review

Allan Hunter

Feb 11, 2021

The material may be slicker but the novelty of the format has faded. Read full review

Guy Lodge

Feb 11, 2021

Life in a Day 2020 is quick to fall back on tidy montage methods — grouped shots of babies being born, skydivers jumping from planes, believers grouped in prayer, mourners in cemeteries — that rather strenuously force a sense of global communion, rather than seeking and stressing life’s more diverse and disorienting juxtapositions. Read full review

IndieWire Christian Blauvelt

Feb 11, 2021

You’re not likely to find a more jarring — and ultimately exhausting — collision of high pretension and low execution at Sundance this year than the crowdsourced YouTube doc Life in a Day 2020. Read full review

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JLuis_001

Mar 11, 2021

2020 was chaotic, but the idea behind it could've been more bearable if it had at least had more coherence.

Because life is very interesting, and despite some of its good moments, much of what is offered here, most of the time felt banal. The idea wasn't bad, but even in the face of the2020 was chaotic, but the idea behind it could've been more bearable if it had at least had more coherence.

Because life is very interesting, and despite some of its good moments, much of what is offered here, most of the time felt banal.

The idea wasn't bad, but even in the face of the ambitious scale, it only scratches the surface.… Expand

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