The Calming

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The Calming

2020

1h 38m

Drama

Foreign

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Lin is a documentary director in her early thirties. After breaking up with her long-term boyfriend, she suffers an emotional crisis. She chooses to deal with it on her own, but still responds openly to the people she meets and the world around her. As time passes and life goes on, her emotional wounds start to heal.

David Ehrlich

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"The Calming" might sound like a Redbox-worthy piece of schlock - and there are, in fact, several low-rent thrillers and horror movies that share its title - but Song's version does exactly what it says on the tin. Her films are breaths of fresh air.

Rated: B+

Sep 28, 2020

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Jake Mulligan

Dig Boston

It's very human and very unspectacular-and when those qualities intersect, the film seems truer than most.

Rated: 3/5

Aug 6, 2021

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Courtney Duckworth

Cinema Scope

Buried within The Calming is an observation, if not a Jia-style critique, of how modern atomization ruptures a sense of community.

Jul 12, 2021

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Sean Gilman

In Review Online

A film about a rebirth, a re-centering, the recreation of the self that must come after a life-changing event. Rarely has a film made me more jealous.

Jun 5, 2021

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Devika Girish

Reverse Shot

This dialectic of movement through stillness -- of the work of rest -- is at the heart of The Calming, which captures its heroine in drift between projects, cities, apartments, relationships.

Oct 24, 2020

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Dustin Chang

ScreenAnarchy

Song Fang... is a gifted director with gentle sensibilities who has a great eye for landscapes reflecting the mood of her protagonist.

Oct 23, 2020

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Synopsis

Lin is a documentary director in her early thirties. After breaking up with her long-term boyfriend, she suffers an emotional crisis. She chooses to deal with it on her own, but still responds openly to the people she meets and the world around her. As time passes and life goes on, her emotional wounds start to heal.

Director: Song Fang
Genre: Drama, Foreign
Original Language: English
Runtime: 1h 38m