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Notes on an Appearance

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Notes on an Appearance

2018

1h 0m

Drama

Mystery & Thriller

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16 Reviews

60%

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Fewer than 50 Ratings

A young man leaves behind an obscure cache of letters, postcards, and notebooks when he disappears.

Jordan Hoffman

amNewYork

We're in deep, art house territory, but not without a sense of humor.

Rated: 3/4

Jan 10, 2019

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Richard Brody

The New Yorker

D'Ambrose conjures a vast imaginary world of intellectual intrigue in tiny, antic touches, which provide the context for a febrile drama of youthful ambition and frustration.

Aug 20, 2018

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Ben Kenigsberg

New York Times

If Mr. D'Ambrose doesn't quite earn his pretensions, it's refreshing to see a filmmaker thinking so far outside the box.

Aug 17, 2018

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Vadim Rizov

Filmmaker Magazine

...consistently clipped editing keeps the tone fluid: humor is in the cuts, and the film is never needlessly dour, deliberately refusing to dutifully find its way to a neatly summarizable Statement About The Zeitgeist.

Jan 5, 2023

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CJ Sheu

Critics at Large

By emphasizing the banality of everyday life, even when events are extreme, D'Ambrose achieves the paradoxical feat of making an hour-long film .. both slow and action-packed.

Jun 30, 2020

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Alonso Díaz de la Vega

El Universal

A strange, concise and intelligent film. [Full Review in Spanish]

Nov 6, 2019

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Audience Member

i've read a few reviews of this film and i think some of the critics fell for mr d'ambrose's traps; it could be because, i think, one must be able to read everything. there are films i thought i could describe as being 'devilish' when recommending them to others - or when i could not explain to my own self why i felt a bit ill after viewing them. mr d'ambrose walks a tightrope and, in my opinion, more than succeeds.

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

02/20/23

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Synopsis

A young man leaves behind an obscure cache of letters, postcards, and notebooks when he disappears.

Director: Ricky D'Ambrose
Producer: Graham Swon
Screenwriter: Ricky D'Ambrose
Genre: Drama, Mystery & Thriller
Original Language: English
Release Date (Streaming): Jul 9, 2019
Runtime: 1h 0m

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