Patience (After Sebald)

Name: Patience (After Sebald)
Genre: Documentary
Released: May 11, 2012
Duration: 90 min
Rating: 75

2012

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Cinema Guild | Release Date: May 11, 2012 | Not Rated

Summary: A richly textured essay film on landscape, art, history, life and loss, Patience (After Sebald) offers a unique exploration of the work and influence of internationally acclaimed writer W.G. Sebald (1944 – 2001). With contributions from major writers, artists and filmmakers, the film is structured around a walk through coastal East Anglia,A richly textured essay film on landscape, art, history, life and loss, Patience (After Sebald) offers a unique exploration of the work and influence of internationally acclaimed writer W.G. Sebald (1944 – 2001). With contributions from major writers, artists and filmmakers, the film is structured around a walk through coastal East Anglia, the same path followed by Sebald in his ground-breaking book, “The Rings of Saturn.” (Cinema Guild)… Expand

Director: Grant Gee

Genre(s): Documentary

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 90 min

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A.O. Scott

May 10, 2012

If he is a self-revealing writer, it is not in the usual, confessional sense, but rather because he seems so strongly present in his books, with a personality that is both the source and aftereffect of the prose. Read full review

Kenji Fujishima

May 8, 2012

A wide-ranging piece of literary criticism brought to vivid cinematic life, bursting with ideas and inspired visual translations of them. Read full review

Noel Murray

May 9, 2012

Patience reveals through images and tone as well as through the interviews how Sebald yearned for restorative meaning in the places he toured, only to end up lost in thought. Read full review

Sam Wigley

May 8, 2012

As Jonathan Pryce reads passages and academic voices take turns to chew over Sebald's visionary opus, B&W footage of country roadsides and wind-blasted coastlines turns rural Suffolk into something truly otherworldly. Read full review

Farran Smith Nehme

May 11, 2012

A thoughtfully conceived and tastefully executed tribute to a venerated author. Read full review

The Guardian Xan Brooks

May 8, 2012

In keeping with the spirit of Sebald's writing, Gee's film is teasing, elegant and perhaps inevitably unresolved: an invitation as opposed to a destination. Read full review

David Fear

May 8, 2012

Look elsewhere if you want a linear timeline of Sebald's life or don't possess that titular virtue; everyone else will want to make a beeline to their local bookstore. Read full review

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