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Unrest

2017

Jennifer Brea

Documentary, Self: Samuel Bearman, Jessica Taylor

7.0

164

Documentary Jennifer, a Harvard PhD student, was signing a check at a restaurant when she found she could not write her own name. Months before her wedding, she became progressively more ill, losing the ability even to sit in a wheelchair. When doctors insisted that her condition was psychosomatic, she picked up her camera to document her own story and the stories of four other patients struggling with the world's most prevalent orphan disease. [+]

	Author	Review
United States	John DeFore The Hollywood Reporter	"Brea offers an affecting film that, when made available on video, will be embraced by the millions suffering CFS worldwide."	POS
United States	Eric Kohn IndieWire	"Jennifer Brea's documentary about her struggles with the disease is an emotional window into its impact on her marriage, but it also looks beyond her own story."	POS
United States	Dennis Harvey Variety	"'Unrest' is a high-grade example of the form that’s consistently involving, with content diverse enough to avoid the tunnel-visioned pitfalls of diarist cinema."	POS
United States	Daniel M. Gold The New York Times	"[It] demonstrates just how debilitating chronic fatigue syndrome can be (...) 'Unrest' is a video diary and, as such, is not always easy to watch."	NEU
United Kingdom	Leslie Felperin The Guardian	"Jennifer Brea uses her own experience and others to build up a multifaceted portrait of the condition and the toll it takes (…) Rating: ★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United States	Glenn Kenny rogerebert.com	"This is jaw-dropping stuff, made more profoundly disturbing by the fact that so little is known about the disease (…) Rating: ★★★ (out of 5)"	POS

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