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Now, Forager

Now, Forager (2012)

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20

Average Rating: 5.6/10
Critic Reviews: 5
Fresh: 1 | Rotten: 4

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75

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Average Rating: 3.9/5
User Ratings: 153

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Lucien and Regina are foragers - They gather wild mushrooms in the woodlands of New Jersey and sell them to restaurants in New York. Their lifestyle is simple, their income unstable. To improve their financial security and to follow a more fulfilling personal career path, Regina decides to take a job cooking at a high-end restaurant. Lucien disapproves and instead, he proposes to give up their apartment and live as full-time itinerant foragers. As individual desires take them down divergent

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Nothing much distinguishes this from any other relationship drama: the husband's climactic anecdote about a fungi's parasitic relationship to its host drives home the obvious.

October 11, 2012 Full Review Source: Chicago Reader
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"Now, Forager" is a uncompromising film about two people who don't deserve each other - but maybe nobody deserves either one of them.

October 11, 2012 Full Review Source: Chicago Sun-Times
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Like the two characters, the film has trouble finding purchase, which yields a more acute feeling of dissatisfaction than was probably intended.

October 2, 2012 Full Review Source: New York Times
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The novelty of their industry aside, there's little to differentiate this from any other relationship-centered Amerindie.

October 2, 2012 Full Review Source: Time Out New York
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A slow-food procedural, commendably devoted yet still underdone.

October 2, 2012 Full Review Source: Village Voice
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Audience Reviews for Now, Forager

I don't know why this film has such a low RT score. I just saw it last week and loved it. It's more of an art film along the lines of Robert Bresson's DIARY OF A COUNTRY PRIEST or Krzysztof Zanussi's STRUCTURE OF CRYSTALS--or Bob Rafelson's FIVE EASY PIECES--than anything else. It's certainly not a twee little film about self-congratulatory Foodies preaching the virtues of organics. It's actually a very smart, dark thought-provoking film about alienation and male melancholy that stays with you.
March 24, 2013
Beautiful, touching. Fine, unobtrusive sound track. I think tthe two of us found it real. Hard not to love her, hard not to feel sorry for him, trapped in an especially immature idealism.
March 12, 2013
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