Claire in Motion

Released Jan 13, 2017

1h 23m

Drama

Mystery & Thriller

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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

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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

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Dennis Harvey

Variety

Brandt impressively limns a character whose intelligence and complexity are always evident, along with a sometimes dislikable brittleness.

Jan 13, 2017

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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

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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

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Josh Goller

Spectrum Culture

Claire in Motion suffers from a sparseness that borders on inconsequentiality.

Rated: 2.75/5

Jul 20, 2019

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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

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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

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Mike J

Sonic is a movie movie star movie theater movie

Rated 2 out of 5 stars

04/28/22

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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

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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

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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

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Annie J. Howell

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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.

Director: Lisa Robinson, Annie J. Howell
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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