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Claire in Motion

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Three weeks after Claire's husband mysteriously disappeared, the police end their investigation and her son is beginning to grieve. The only person who hasn't given up is Claire. Soon, she discovers his troubling secrets, including an alluring yet manipulative graduate student with whom he had formed a close bond. As she digs deeper, Claire begins to lose her grip on how well she truly knew her husband and questions her own identity in the process.
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Nick Allen RogerEbert.com With their second success, Howell & Robinson continue to treat mainstream log-lines with unique emotional and intellectual tenderness, offering a fresh take on our inherent need for closure. Rated: 3/4 Jan 13, 2017 Full Review Claudia Puig TheWrap Robinson and Howell know how to create an atmosphere of expectation; they succeed in outlining an elliptical and murky story and establishing a sense of vague unease. Perhaps their next film will give us more to go on. Jan 13, 2017 Full Review Dennis Harvey Variety Brandt impressively limns a character whose intelligence and complexity are always evident, along with a sometimes dislikable brittleness. Jan 13, 2017 Full Review Allen Almachar The MacGuffin What starts out as a mystery soon develops into an engrossing study of a character dealing with loss, and the quick realization that everything they thought was true may be the complete opposite. Rated: B+ Jul 13, 2020 Full Review Steven Prokopy Third Coast Review This is a quiet, messy, moving work that takes a bold approach to what could have been a run-of-the-mill story and makes it original. May 1, 2020 Full Review Josh Goller Spectrum Culture Claire in Motion suffers from a sparseness that borders on inconsequentiality. Rated: 2.75/5 Jul 20, 2019 Full Review Read all reviews

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Audience Member CLAIRE IN MOTION is well done, but the storyline goes nowhere, wanders and then the movie's over. Rated 1 out of 5 stars 05/14/24 Full Review Jennifer E Slow paced, with characters that are just boring. It's not wonder the guy disappeared. One look at the script and he noped right out of there. Just do yourself a favor and watch something else, even it's just drying paint. Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars 07/31/23 Full Review ronald h _Claire in Motion_ is a self-important, dreary film that strains under the weight of its own metaphors. It's 95 percent atmosphere and 5 percent plot. That might work in a movie in which we actually cared about the characters, but everybody here is so contrived and distant, there's nothing to latch on to emotionally. Claire is a math professor at a small Ohio college (It looks like it was filmed in and around Ohio University in Athens). Her husband Paul, also a professor, goes off on a routine hiking trip (He's an ornithologist) and simply vanishes. But the film isn't about some extensive police search or mystery; it's about Claire and her response to her husband's disappearance. To complicate things, she discovers that he had been spending a lot of time with an attractive grad student. It's not clear if the relationship was sexual, but it was intimate. The grad student knows things about Paul that Claire never knew. It might possibly make for interesting drama if the characters were not so damned unlikeable. Claire is solipsistic and uncommunicative, her prepubescent son is moody and depressive, the grad student is pretentious and obnoxious, and Paul is seen so little that we have no insight into him. I've never understood why filmmakers make movies in which we have no reason to care about the characters. If we can't sympathize or relate to them, who gives a damn what happens to them? The aforementioned metaphors are simplistic and glaring: birds, sky diving--symbols of escape and freedom. A high school student could have come up with this stuff. I watched it to the end, thinking that after wading through all the pretension, I would at least find out what happened to Paul. No big spoiler: It doesn't happen. Rated 2 out of 5 stars 03/30/23 Full Review Audience Member Extremely slow character development leaves you feeling like the characters were never individually formed. The ending was vague and again never answered the questions raised during the film. If the final seconds were meant to be "artsy" it was done with crayons in an elementary school. Sad Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars 02/18/23 Full Review Audience Member Total nothing of a.movie. 10 minute plot stretched to fill 90 minutes. "Claire No Motion" is a much more appropriate title. Don't waste your time with this one. Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars 02/19/23 Full Review chris n Somehow I thought this was a thriller. It's an expose on the emotional turmoil a wife experiences when she discovers that hubby had personal interests he kept to himself, like......sculpting? Claire Standing Still. Rated 1.5 out of 5 stars 03/31/23 Full Review Read all reviews
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Synopsis Three weeks after Claire's husband mysteriously disappeared, the police end their investigation and her son is beginning to grieve. The only person who hasn't given up is Claire. Soon, she discovers his troubling secrets, including an alluring yet manipulative graduate student with whom he had formed a close bond. As she digs deeper, Claire begins to lose her grip on how well she truly knew her husband and questions her own identity in the process.
Director
Lisa Robinson, Annie J. Howell
Producer
Lisa Robinson, Annie J. Howell, Jenny Deller
Screenwriter
Lisa Robinson, Annie J. Howell
Distributor
Breaking Glass Pictures
Production Co
Sacha Pictures
Genre
Drama, Mystery & Thriller
Original Language
English
Release Date (Theaters)
Jan 13, 2017, Limited
Release Date (Streaming)
Apr 16, 2017
Runtime
1h 23m
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