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The Year of the Everlasting Storm

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6.5/10 • 9

2021-09-031h 55m

DramaMysteryDocumentary

Featuring seven stories from seven auteurs from around the world, the film chronicles this unprecedented moment in time, and is a true love letter to the power of cinema and its storytellers.

Directors
Jafar Panahi, Malik Vitthal, Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Dominga Sotomayor, David Lowery, Laura Poitras, Anthony Chen
Writters
Jafar Panahi, Anthony Chen, David Lowery
Editors
Jafar Panahi, Anthony Chen, David Lowery, Catalina Marín Duarte

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  1. Mokarameh Saidi Balsini

    Mokarameh Saidi Balsini

  2. Tahereh Saidi Balsini

    Tahereh Saidi Balsini

  3. Solmaz Panahi

    Solmaz Panahi

  4. Jafar Panahi

    Jafar Panahi

  5. Igi

    Igi

  6. Zhou Dongyu

    Zhou Dongyu

  7. Zhang Yu

    Zhang Yu

  8. Zhang Yanbo

    Zhang Yanbo

    Xiaohao

  9. Qian Youfa

    Qian Youfa

    Grandpa

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badelf

Dec 29, 2021

8/10

I read the reviews and poor scores for this film so my expectations were low. But somewhere after the first couple stories, I asked myself the same question as these filmmakers did: "Tell me how you really feel about 2020 in 20 minutes?" I myself would've been at a loss. The question yields another perspective and appreciation for these stories. Even Lowery's it-takes-a-pandemic-to-get-me-to-dig-up-my-dead-brother wasn't bad. Chen's comment on the dramatic pandemic-related increase of domestic violence was spot on. Panahi's biopic of how our elders suffer differently than us was touching. Vitthal's heartwarming personal story just reminds us of the continuing class difference even in how the pandemic affected us. The pièce de résistance was, of course, the duality of Weerasethakul's Buddhist world-view that insects don't give a shit about your pandemic ego, dude. And Poitras? Well, I'm in the business. It's worse, and way more dangerous, than she says.

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Status
Released
Original Language
English
Budget
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Revenue
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Keywords
anthologycovid-19