The Year of the Everlasting Storm

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The Year of the Everlasting Storm

Released Sep 3, 2021

1h 55m

Drama

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A love letter to cinema, shot across the US, Iran, Chile, China and Thailand, by seven of today's most vital filmmakers. New life in the old house. A breakaway, a reunion. Surveillance and reconciliation. An unrecognizable world, in the year of the everlasting storm.

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Critics Consensus

The Year of the Everlasting Storm presents a diverse assortment of filmmakers offering a varied yet compelling response to shared trauma.

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Roxana Hadadi

Los Angeles Times

The film's poignancy comes from its confirmation that even in tumultuous times, our senses of wonder, love and loyalty remain integral to the human experience.

Sep 11, 2021

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Mark Feeney

Boston Globe

A feature-length anthology, 'The Year of the Everlasting Storm,' offers multiple views of how COVID-19 has affected us

Rated: 2.5/4

Sep 10, 2021

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Richard Whittaker

Austin Chronicle

The Year of the Everlasting Storm may well be topped and tailed by its best, most eccentric works, each at the polar ends of observation.

Rated: 3/5

Sep 9, 2021

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Christopher Lloyd

The Film Yap

This anthology of stories from around the globe about the early days of pandemic serves as a cathartic exhale after all we've been through.

Rated: 4/5

May 4, 2022

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Robert Roten

Laramie Movie Scope

Overall, the segments range from troubling, to moving, to the macabre. They don't really fit together into a complete package, but there is enough variety in it that most people will be able to find something interesting in it.

Rated: C+

Jan 27, 2022

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John Serba

Decider

Everyone here has something vital to say or examine.

Jan 8, 2022

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Kyle M

Besides bounded to our own individual realities in the wake of the pandemic, this anthology film is genuinely diverse in expressing differential aspects of affected lockdowns and configured communications, all poetically midst. Or it’s just a collection of short films made by film directors wanting to capture their own connective realities to the ranging extent of limited subjects. The keys are relatability and minimal storytelling, unknowingly structured collective poetry that generally disengages under irrelevant association that doesn’t add anything new but just expressive stories. (B)

Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars

10/20/24

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greg r

Made it to the American family and then shut it off. Exhausting. Boring. We all lived this. Why would we ever wish to see someone else go through it?

Rated 1.5 out of 5 stars

03/31/23

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debbie m

I can't believe I spent the last 10 minutes of the movie watching bugs buzz around. I spent the whole night feeling itchy. Enjoyed a couple of the stories but didn't see all of their connection to Covid-19. Could have saved myself the time.

Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars

03/30/23

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Synopsis

A love letter to cinema, shot across the US, Iran, Chile, China and Thailand, by seven of today's most vital filmmakers. New life in the old house. A breakaway, a reunion. Surveillance and reconciliation. An unrecognizable world, in the year of the everlasting storm.

Director: Anthony Chen, David Lowery, Jafar Panahi, Laura Poitras, Dominga Sotomayor, Malik Vitthal, Apichatpong Weerasethakul
Producer: Brad Becker-Parton, Anthony Chen, Jeff Deutchman, Jafar Panahi, Laura Poitras, Andrea Roa, Meng Xie, Yoni Golijov
Screenwriter: Anthony Chen, David Lowery
Distributor: NEON
Production Co: Neon, Animal Kingdom, giraffe pictures, Crater 203, Rediance
Genre: Drama
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Sep 3, 2021, Limited
Release Date (Streaming): Oct 5, 2021
Box Office (Gross USA): $9.0K
Runtime: 1h 55m

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