Notes on an Appearance

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Movie Info

A young man leaves behind an obscure cache of letters, postcards, and notebooks when he disappears.

Genre:

drama, mystery and thriller
Original Language:

English
Director:

Ricky D'Ambrose
Producer:

Graham Swon
Writer:

Ricky D'Ambrose
Release Date (Streaming):

Jul 9, 2019
Runtime:

1h

Cast & Crew

Bingham Bryant
David

Kathryn Danielle
Mother

A.S. Hamrah
Father

Madeleine James
Karin

James N. Kienitz Wilkins
Ethan

Tallie Medel
Madeleine

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Critic Reviews for Notes on an Appearance

All Critics (15) | Top Critics (6) | Fresh (13) | Rotten (2)

We're in deep, art house territory, but not without a sense of humor.

January 10, 2019 | Rating: 3/4 | Full Review…

Jordan Hoffman
amNewYork
D'Ambrose conjures a vast imaginary world of intellectual intrigue in tiny, antic touches, which provide the context for a febrile drama of youthful ambition and frustration.

August 20, 2018 | Full Review…

Richard Brody
New Yorker
If Mr. D'Ambrose doesn't quite earn his pretensions, it's refreshing to see a filmmaker thinking so far outside the box.

August 17, 2018 | Full Review…

Ben Kenigsberg
New York Times
Notes on an Appearance relays a narrative teeming with incident - death, disappearance - through an elusive yet methodical style.

August 14, 2018 | Full Review…

Danny King
Village Voice
Outwardly the film comes off as a fussy exercise, holding emotion as well as spectacle at bay. Within the academic approach, however, is a desire for purity which has its apocalyptic side.

July 27, 2018 | Full Review…

Jake Wilson
The Age (Australia)
This tale of a young man who goes missing in Brooklyn has some intriguing moments and a unique visual style, but it proves far too elliptical to be of much more than academic interest.

April 5, 2018 | Full Review…

Frank Scheck
Hollywood Reporter
By emphasizing the banality of everyday life, even when events are extreme, D'Ambrose achieves the paradoxical feat of making an hour-long film .. both slow and action-packed.

June 30, 2020 | Full Review…

CJ Sheu
Critics at Large
A strange, concise and intelligent film. [Full Review in Spanish]

November 6, 2019 | Full Review…

Alonso Díaz de la Vega
El Universal
D'Ambrose is clearly a filmmaker to watch, whose ideas and musings, much like Bresson's, are inexorably tied to film form in such a way that finds emotional truth through stylistic distance

June 3, 2019 | Rating: 3/4 | Full Review…

Matthew Lucas
From the Front Row
Despite [its] flaws, Notes on an Appearance illustrates a confident director who leans heavily on his own idiosyncratic style, something that can't be faulted too much.

October 23, 2018 | Full Review…

Christian Gallichio
The Playlist
"Notes on an Appearance" feels constructed like a maze with no exit.

October 17, 2018 | Rating: 3/4 | Full Review…

Rob Thomas
Capital Times (Madison, WI)
Zero-budget experimental minimalist thriller.

October 12, 2018 | Rating: B+ | Full Review…

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