The Observers
Jacqueline Gross Films | Release Date: May 10, 2012 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
61
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Generally favorable reviews based on 4 Critic Reviews
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3
Mixed:
1
Negative:
0
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80
Time OutAlison WillmoreMay 8, 2012
By paring down to the bare processes of the pair's work, The Observers creates a haunting sense of people engaged in an otherworldly duty-huddled over incomprehensible charts and dials, they seem like they're busy maintaining the clockwork mechanism of the world itself. Read full review
75
Slant MagazineBill WeberMay 8, 2012
Goss's film carries its unique forms of narrative suspense, but her 16mm images imbue both the forbidding landscape and her characters' scientific aerie, though the observatory only dates from 1932, with a poetry of the seemingly eternal. Read full review
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The New York TimesNeil GenzlingerMay 10, 2012
Solitude is a character, so much so that, 25 minutes in, when the first human voice is heard, it feels like an intrusion. And when the weather warms enough for tourists to make the trek up to the observatory, they register not as a welcome relief from loneliness but as annoyances. Read full review
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Village VoiceNick PinkertonMay 8, 2012
There are moments when the tedium loosens you to melt into the landscape, and you swear you can hear the moss on the rocks start talking. Read full review
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