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Right in the middle of a school inspector's visit, Ari, a 27-year-old student teacher, collapses. Angry with him for being a failure, his father kicks him out of the house. Emotionally raw, and alone in the city, Ari reluctantly forces himself to rekindle his relationships with old friends. As his memories of the previous months successively ebb and flow, Ari discovers that other people aren't doing as well as he imagined, and that perhaps he has been sleepwalking through his own life.

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Peter Bradshaw Guardian A peculiar, unformed and unsatisfyingly developed feature, something that does not really deliver the truthful insights that seemed initially on offer. Rated: 2/5 Feb 20, 2025 Full Review Jordan Mintzer The Hollywood Reporter A loosely assembled drama that never pulls us in as much as the director’s previous work, but offers up an honest, at times searing portrait of what it’s like to be in your 20s in this day and age. Feb 19, 2025 Full Review Guy Lodge Variety Light on plot in the conventional sense -- but holds attention with staggered revelations that feel less like conveniently withheld narrative gambits than a person gradually taking stock of their past and present. Feb 19, 2025 Full Review Georgi Petkov Loud and Clear Reviews It’s a rare occurrence for a film to be able to capture a truly sincere moment in the artificial circumstances of moviemaking. [...] Writer-director Léonor Serraille takes good care of Ari, and it comes across. Rated: 4/5 Feb 21, 2025 Full Review Matthew Turner Next Best Picture “Ari” functions well as both a character study and a portrait of 21st-century anxiety, and it’s possible that younger audiences may get more out of it in that respect. However, the structure and storytelling remain frustratingly vague Rated: 5/10 Feb 20, 2025 Full Review Boyd van Hoeij Screen International There might be a lot of dialogue, but looks, silences, hesitations and facial expressions are often just as telling, if not more so. Feb 20, 2025 Full Review Read all reviews

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Synopsis Right in the middle of a school inspector's visit, Ari, a 27-year-old student teacher, collapses. Angry with him for being a failure, his father kicks him out of the house. Emotionally raw, and alone in the city, Ari reluctantly forces himself to rekindle his relationships with old friends. As his memories of the previous months successively ebb and flow, Ari discovers that other people aren't doing as well as he imagined, and that perhaps he has been sleepwalking through his own life.
Director
Léonor Serraille
Producer
Sandra da Fonseca, Grégoire Debailly
Screenwriter
Léonor Serraille
Production Co
Geko Films, Blue Monday Productions
Genre
Drama
Original Language
French
Runtime
1h 28m