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While not exactly a full-fledged magnum opus, From What Is Before hints at a new direction combining an unhurried visual pace and a more dramatic, forceful approach in tackling history and politics. Dec 7, 2015 | Full Review…
While not exactly a full-fledged magnum opus, From What Is Before hints at a new direction combining an unhurried visual pace and a more dramatic, forceful approach in tackling history and politics.
Clarence Tsui
[A] hauntingly beautiful new picture, which chronicles the gradual decline of a small coastal barrio in the Philippines in the final days before president Ferdinand Marcos imposed martial law in 1972. Dec 7, 2015 | Full Review…
[A] hauntingly beautiful new picture, which chronicles the gradual decline of a small coastal barrio in the Philippines in the final days before president Ferdinand Marcos imposed martial law in 1972.
Justin Chang
Diaz's prolonged approach to storytelling is a tough sit with no easy payoff, but it enables him to cast a remarkable spell defined by a recurring sense of dislocation. Dec 7, 2015 | Rating: A- | Full Review…
Diaz's prolonged approach to storytelling is a tough sit with no easy payoff, but it enables him to cast a remarkable spell defined by a recurring sense of dislocation.
Eric Kohn
What Diaz has done is to distill centuries of the country's sorrows and agonies into a fascinatingly fractured narrative that will never ever leave you. Jul 18, 2019 | Full Review…
What Diaz has done is to distill centuries of the country's sorrows and agonies into a fascinatingly fractured narrative that will never ever leave you.
Oggs Cruz
Diaz's style acts as a sort of teleportation device, slowly immersing viewers into his film's world to the point where it's easy to imagine living right alongside the villagers. Jun 12, 2019 | Full Review…
Diaz's style acts as a sort of teleportation device, slowly immersing viewers into his film's world to the point where it's easy to imagine living right alongside the villagers.
C.J. Prince
Given the film's detailed examination of a physical environment, the lackluster sound design is a bit surprising. Oct 5, 2018 | Rating: C+ | Full Review…
Given the film's detailed examination of a physical environment, the lackluster sound design is a bit surprising.
Sky Hirschkron
From What Is Before is a striking example of Slow Cinema: over the course of 338 minutes, Diaz creates a narrative in two parts, with the country's historical cataclysms haunting the events of the first half and culminating in the second. Sep 26, 2017 | Full Review…
From What Is Before is a striking example of Slow Cinema: over the course of 338 minutes, Diaz creates a narrative in two parts, with the country's historical cataclysms haunting the events of the first half and culminating in the second.
Alexandra Zawia
It's a challenging film, but it rewards with a fully realized historical context, multifaceted characterizations, and profound philosophical and political realizations. Dec 7, 2015 | Full Review…
It's a challenging film, but it rewards with a fully realized historical context, multifaceted characterizations, and profound philosophical and political realizations.
Derek Smith
What generates suspense -- or more accurately, dread -- is our knowledge that this place that seems to exist out of time is in fact located on a historical fault-line. May 12, 2015 | Full Review…
What generates suspense -- or more accurately, dread -- is our knowledge that this place that seems to exist out of time is in fact located on a historical fault-line.
Adam Nayman
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