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In the Intense Now

No Intenso Agora (In the Intense Now)

2017

João Moreira Salles

Documentary, Self: Daniel Cohn-Bendit

7.3

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Documentary No Intenso Agora (In the Intense Now) from Brazil’s João Moreira Salles, who juxtaposes a cornucopia of archive materials documenting the events which unfolded in Paris in 1968 with amateur footage showing the suppression of the Prague Spring and footage of a self -confident Chinese society under Mao, just as his mother experienced it back then – as a private political reflection.

	Author	Review
United States	Owen Gleiberman Variety	"It’s a documentary that’s really a meditation — history made poetic. It’s an immersive and highly personal film (...) The footage we see is fascinating."	POS
United States	Bill Stamets Chicago Sun-Times	"[A] spellbinding essay film (...) Salles deconstructs with empathy the act of shooting."	POS
United States	Alan Scherstuhl Village Voice	"Immersive, involving, sometimes revelatory, sometimes curiously naive, and on occasion thuddingly obvious (...) Salles’s analysis sometimes makes the obvious arresting, even moving."	POS
United States	A. O. Scott The New York Times	"A bittersweet, ruminative documentary (...) For a few hours, we are caught up in the intensity of 'then'."	POS
United States	Diego Semerene Slant	"His storylines never quite gel (…) [It] feels like a rough draft of an essay rushed for publication (...) Rating: ★½ (out of 4)"	NEG

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