Unrest

Name: Unrest
Genre: Drama, History
Released: May 5, 2023
Duration: 93 min
Rating: 75
Cast: Alexei Evstratov, Clara Gostynski, Daniel Stähli, Hélio Thiémard, Laurence Bretignier

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Kimstim Films | Release Date: May 5, 2023 | Not Rated

Starring: Alexei Evstratov, Clara Gostynski, Daniel Stähli, Hélio Thiémard, Laurence Bretignier, Laurent Ferrero, Li Tavor, Mayo Irion, Monika Stalder, Nikolai Bosshardt, Valentin Merz

Summary: New technologies are transforming a 19th-century watchmaking town in Switzerland. Josephine, a young factory worker, produces the unrest wheel, swinging in the heart of the mechanical watch. Exposed to new ways of organizing money, time and labour, she gets involved with the local movement of the anarchist watchmakers, where she meetsNew technologies are transforming a 19th-century watchmaking town in Switzerland. Josephine, a young factory worker, produces the unrest wheel, swinging in the heart of the mechanical watch. Exposed to new ways of organizing money, time and labour, she gets involved with the local movement of the anarchist watchmakers, where she meets Russian traveller Pyotr Kropotkin.… Expand

Director: Cyril Schäublin

Genre(s): Drama, History

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 93 min

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Amy Nicholson

May 4, 2023

The film punctures that airless sense of fate which can suffocate period pieces and restores this moment of upheaval to immediacy. Read full review

Jessica Kiang

Apr 25, 2023

A gorgeously playful oddity glimmering with insight into ideology, photography, cartography, telegraphy, celebrity, solidarity, the flow of capital, the unruliness of time and the somehow noble lunacy of trying to tame such a massive concept into a brass doodad small enough to fit in a waistcoat pocket Read full review

Jordan Mintzer

Apr 25, 2023

While the drama never exactly ignites, Schäublin keeps us constantly fascinated with his detailed historical recreations and keen observations on science, manufacturing and technology, and how they weighed upon the souls of workers and owners alike. Read full review

Wendy Ide

Apr 25, 2023

An investment on the part of the audience is required, to focus in on the characters and to follow the dialogue. It’s not quite as dry as it sounds. There is a subtle humour in this singular approach, but like the dialogue and the drama (such that it is), it is sidelined. Read full review

Michael Rechtshaffen

May 19, 2023

There’s a prevailing playfulness to many of the sequences which, like that properly placed unrest wheel, ensures a satisfying balance. Read full review

Pat Brown

Feb 17, 2022

Cyril Schäublin’s precisely framed snapshot of a microcosm of timekeepers ends up being a bit too, well, mechanical. Read full review

Movie Nation Roger Moore

May 2, 2023

Unrest could have been a lot of things that it’s not — “fascinating,” “illuminating,” “entertaining” and even “inspiring” among them. Instead, we’re treated to engrossing details that never add up to more than watching a second hand labor its way around a clock face. Read full review

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