The Fever
Kimstim Films | Release Date (Streaming): March 19, 2021 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
79
METASCORE
Generally favorable reviews based on 9 Critic Reviews
Positive:
8
Mixed:
1
Negative:
0
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Critic scorePublicationBy date
100
CineVueChristopher MachellAug 5, 2021
The magical realms of Justino’s stories are echoed in the real world, where spaces are enclosed but liminal, defined by uneasy boundaries that are easily breached. Read full review
91
The Film StageLeonardo GoiMar 3, 2021
This is an entrancing film, orphaned by an unspeakable longing for a place–a whole world–that will never return. Read full review
90
VarietyManuel BetancourtMar 26, 2021
It is Myrupu’s beguiling performance what anchors this intimate and entrancing epic, a modern-day fable about the very concept of modernity and the promise of fabulation. Read full review
90
The New York TimesDevika GirishMar 18, 2021
By showing us the world through Justino’s searching gaze, Da-Rin gives us an elusive but powerful sense of the limits of our own vision. Read full review
80
Los Angeles TimesCarlos AguilarMar 18, 2021
Subtly sensorial more than conventionally narrative, The Fever inhabits an ethereal plane that centers Indigenous beliefs and cultural practices not as primitive but valid modes of engagement. Read full review
78
Austin ChronicleJosh KupeckiApr 14, 2021
The natural world and the industrialized world are at odds once again. But it is to Da-Rin’s talent as a filmmaker that her political and ideological intent never overshadow this deceptively simple and astute tale of a sick man yearning for his home, and finally hearing the call of the wild. Read full review
75
RogerEbert.comRoxana HadadiMar 19, 2021
When progress stops feeling like progress is what Da-Rin captures in The Fever, and fantastic lead actor Regis Myrupu is a conduit for a calamity that builds and builds. Read full review
75
Slant MagazinePat BrownMar 16, 2021
In the film, Manaus is a place of irreconcilable tension between the lush natural world and the cold, metallic world of industrial modernity. Read full review
60
The GuardianPeter BradshawAug 12, 2021
The Fever is a calm and quiet and subtle film, a little inert perhaps, but deeply engaged with the hidden lives of Brazil’s indigenous people. There is poetry in it. Read full review
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