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The Remarkable Life of Ibelin

Play trailer 1:27 Poster for The Remarkable Life of Ibelin PG-13 2024 1h 44m Documentary Biography Play Trailer Watchlist
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Mats Steen, a Norwegian gamer, died of a degenerative muscular disease at the age of 25. His parents mourned what they thought had been a lonely and isolated life, when they started receiving messages from online friends around the world.
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The Remarkable Life of Ibelin is a heartfelt ode to one man's ability to craft community and legacy through the realm of online game-playing.

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Robert Levin Newsday 11/11/2024
4/4
A powerful, life-affirming work. Don't miss it. Go to Full Review
James Dyer Empire Magazine 10/29/2024
4/5
A heartfelt digital eulogy for an unconventional but extremely human life. Go to Full Review
Alissa Wilkinson New York Times 10/29/2024
... A rare and beautiful thing: a moving documentary that excavates the question of the “real” in a profoundly humanistic and unconventional way. Go to Full Review
David Bax Battleship Pretension Aug 26
It’s an argument that, as one person states in the film, “There are solutions to most things.” Go to Full Review
Aaron Neuwirth We Live Entertainment 01/08/2025
8/10
This is a wonderful story. Director Benjamin Ree takes the right approach to help us understand the value of learning about Mats Steen. Go to Full Review
Stephen A. Russell Orion's Shoulder (Substack) 12/31/2024
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Glenn G @GauchoGuy Nov 19 Well done. Many eyes were welling up! See more Vince Q @Vincedeq Nov 3 Doc about the secret online fantasy life of a boy who had a degenerative muscle disease that confined him to a wheelchair at the end of his life. His parents only discovered this alternate online persona after he had passed. Cool that the parents ultimately discovered that their child had this hidden dimensionality, but it begs the question, why didn't they participate in this aspect of his life while he was alive. The doc doesn’t really address that. See more Movie F @hiker Sep 19 A very touching true story about a young man with muscular dystrophy and the close online gaming community that cared. See more Scott M @Skeeeeezo Aug 5 I didn't have enough knowledge of Warcraft to fully understand how the story was being told, but otherwise a very creative approach to storytelling -RIP Ibelin. See more Mike M @markovich Jun 13 Touching movie with a powerful ending. A life well lived. As a former WoW player, though, the animation scenes took away from the story in my opinion. The game doesn't work in the way that it was told and animated through others' stories about Ibelin. See more Daniel B @observor Apr 16 Instead of making a movie about a handicapped gamer, they should make one about the people who created the technology that allowed that gamer to live a different life. See more Read all reviews
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Synopsis Mats Steen, a Norwegian gamer, died of a degenerative muscular disease at the age of 25. His parents mourned what they thought had been a lonely and isolated life, when they started receiving messages from online friends around the world.
Director
Benjamin Ree
Producer
Ingvil Giske
Screenwriter
Mats Steen
Distributor
Netflix
Production Co
Medieoperatørene
Rating
PG-13 (Brief Strong Language)
Genre
Documentary, Biography
Original Language
Norwegian
Release Date (Theaters)
Oct 18, 2024, Limited
Release Date (Streaming)
Oct 25, 2024
Runtime
1h 44m
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