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The Calming

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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.

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David Ehrlich IndieWire 09/28/2020
B+
"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. Go to Full Review Jake Mulligan Dig Boston 08/06/2021
3/5
It's very human and very unspectacular-and when those qualities intersect, the film seems truer than most. Go to Full Review Courtney Duckworth Cinema Scope 07/12/2021
Buried within The Calming is an observation, if not a Jia-style critique, of how modern atomization ruptures a sense of community. Go to Full Review Sean Gilman In Review Online 06/05/2021
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. Go to Full Review Devika Girish Reverse Shot 10/24/2020
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. Go to Full Review Dustin Chang ScreenAnarchy 10/23/2020
Song Fang... is a gifted director with gentle sensibilities who has a great eye for landscapes reflecting the mood of her protagonist. Go to Full Review Read all reviews
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Song Fang

Director

Xi Qi

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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