The Exiles

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The Exiles

2022

1h 35m

Documentary

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Documentarian Christine Choy tracks down three exiled dissidents from the Tiananmen Square massacre to find closure on an abandoned film she began shooting in 1989.

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Nick Allen

RogerEbert.com

The Exiles can't quite figure out how to balance telling [Choy's] own story while she guides us through those of the three men.

Jan 28, 2022

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Wendy Ide

Screen International

It can feel a little scattershot at times, but the film illuminates the considerable cost of dissent, both then and now.

Jan 27, 2022

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Jessica Kiang

Variety

Columbus and Klein present a palimpsest of erratically overlapping perspectives. The results are untidy and unbalanced, but derive considerable energy from that eccentric approach.

Jan 26, 2022

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Carla Hay

Culture Mix

Riveting but somewhat uneven ... At first, the documentary looks more like a biography about [Christine] Choy than about the exiles. But the film gets better as it goes along and is a fascinating story of personal sacrifices for political beliefs.

Jan 10, 2023

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Alan French

Sunshine State Cineplex

The Exiles is an essential text for understanding political activism and how it changes a person.

Rated: 8/10

Jan 10, 2023

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Dennis Harvey

48 Hills

If that’s a bleak diagnosis, it does not dominate The Exiles, which instead is very much dominated by Choy, At 70 or so, she remains a brash, chainsmoking, vodka-chugging “loudmouth” ...

Dec 13, 2022

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Synopsis

Documentarian Christine Choy tracks down three exiled dissidents from the Tiananmen Square massacre to find closure on an abandoned film she began shooting in 1989.

Director: Violet Columbus, Ben Klein
Producer: Maria Chiu, Ben Klein, Violet Columbus
Genre: Documentary
Original Language: English
Runtime: 1h 35m

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