Users

Name: Users
Genre: Documentary
Released: June 9, 2023
Duration: 81 min
Rating: 66

2023

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Icarus Films | Release Date: June 9, 2023 | Not Rated

Summary: Users traverses places ranging from the largest indoor vertical farm in the world to the perfect artificial wave, from an IVF embryo lab to a fiber optic cable landing. Invisible infrastructure that we all rely on is made visible. Our reliance on machines and our alienation from each other is palatable. Urgent global issues like climateUsers traverses places ranging from the largest indoor vertical farm in the world to the perfect artificial wave, from an IVF embryo lab to a fiber optic cable landing. Invisible infrastructure that we all rely on is made visible. Our reliance on machines and our alienation from each other is palatable. Urgent global issues like climate change and privacy are explored from the intimate perspective of a mother thinking, worrying and loving her children.… Expand

Director: Natalia Almada

Genre(s): Documentary

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 81 min

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Wes Greene

Jun 9, 2023

The film’s triumph is keeping us on our toes by sending us into an ether where fear and wonder live hand in hand. Read full review

IndieWire Eric Kohn

Jun 9, 2023

Users lacks clarity, sliding along in moment-to-moment beauty with such confidence that it never seems too concerned with building a cohesive argument. But it’s never less than enthralling to get lost in this particular ether. Read full review

Alissa Wilkinson

Jun 9, 2023

Directed by Natalia Almada and scored by the Kronos Quartet, the film feels a little symphonic, a mesmerizing exploration of how technology is transforming the ways we relate to the natural world. Read full review

RogerEbert.com Christy Lemire

Jun 9, 2023

Because Users is so captivating from a technical perspective, it’s frustrating to discover how scattered it is narratively. Read full review

Leslie Felperin

Jun 9, 2023

Poetic, painterly work Users looks and sounds stunning, but remains thematically a little too diffuse for its own good as it meditates on our children and the future they will inhabit, where perfect machines replace imperfect parents. Read full review

Devika Girish

Jun 9, 2023

This negotiation between techno-pessimism and techno-fetishism is at the heart of Users, though Almada’s scattered movie struggles to keep them in balance; her broad, rhetorical voice-over is a poor match for the complexity of the film’s images. Read full review

Jessica Kiang

Jun 9, 2023

In her voiceover, Almada, who has made one fiction feature but mostly works in documentary form, shuffles through half-formed ideas too randomly to gather these scattered wonders into an identifiable thesis. Read full review

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