The Exiles

Name: The Exiles
Genre: Documentary
Released: January 10, 2023
Duration: 95 min
Rating: 66
Cast: Christine Choy

2023

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Gravitas Ventures | Release Date (Streaming): January 10, 2023 | Not Rated

Starring: Christine Choy

Movie Facts:

Winner of the U.S. Grand Jury Prize (Documentary) at the 2022 Sundance Film Festival.

Summary: Documentarian Christine Choy tracks down three exiled dissidents from the Tiananmen Square massacre, in order to find closure on an abandoned film she began shooting in 1989.

Director: Ben Klein and Violet Columbus

Genre(s): Documentary

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 95 min

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The Film Stage John Fink

Feb 10, 2022

The film is an open, honest portrait of personal conflict, contradictions, and suppressed narratives that shed some new light on the student protest movement by bringing the footage—and some of the personal baggage—out of the vault. Read full review

The Playlist Andrew Bundy

Jan 29, 2022

While its structure is a little lopsided (the beginning portion plays like a doc about Choy) and the tone tends to sway somewhat harshly between justifiably acidic and politically enlightening, “The Exiles” is an essential look at “philosophical homelessness” and an expert example of documentary cinema as a truth-telling device. Read full review

Jessica Kiang

Jan 29, 2022

Columbus and Klein present a palimpsest of erratically overlapping perspectives. The results are untidy and unbalanced, but derive considerable energy from that eccentric approach. Read full review

Wendy Ide

Jan 29, 2022

It can feel a little scattershot at times, but the film illuminates the considerable cost of dissent, both then and now. It’s at its best, however, when it gives Choy free-rein to speak her mind. Read full review

IndieWire David Ehrlich

Jan 28, 2022

The 70-year-old Choy isn’t the subject of their film so much as she’s the lens through which it looks back at yesterday and the fire that kindles its hope for a brighter tomorrow, but her inextinguishable spirit can be felt burning away behind every scene. Read full review

John DeFore

Jan 28, 2022

Though a mixed bag as a piece of storytelling, the film’s greatest value for American viewers in 2022 is the truth it conveys to those hoping to preserve (or, let’s dare to dream, improve) a democracy facing immediate and very grave threats. Read full review

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