Name: Notturno
Genre: Documentary
Released: 2020-07-31T11:09:21-07:00
Rating: 79

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Notturno contemplates the cost of war in starkly human terms by surveying the lives of people living under the threat of destruction. Read critic reviews

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Movie Info

Filmed over three years on the borders between Iraq, Kurdistan, Syria, and Lebanon, this documentary captures everyday life in the aftermath of tyranny, invasions and terrorism.

Genre:

documentary
Original Language:

Arabic
Director:

Gianfranco Rosi
Producer:

Donatella Palermo, Serge Lalou, Camille Laemlé, Orwa Nyrabia, Diana El Jeiroudi, Eva-maria Weerts
Release Date (Streaming):

Feb 1, 2021
Runtime:

1h 40m
Production Co:

Stemal Entertainment, Rai Cinema, Les Films d'Ici

Cast & Crew

Gianfranco Rosi
Director

Gianfranco Rosi
Screen Story

Donatella Palermo
Producer

Serge Lalou
Producer

Camille Laemlé
Producer

Orwa Nyrabia
Producer

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Critic Reviews for Notturno

All Critics (56) | Top Critics (18) | Fresh (44) | Rotten (12)

The overall effect is like picking up a copy of National Geographic, turning to a long and ambitious photo essay, and not reading the captions. It also shows the limits of what Rosi can achieve.

January 29, 2021 | Rating: 3/5 | Full Review…

Richard Whittaker
Austin Chronicle
While Notturno shares many moments of profound fragility and deep beauty, it also paints an incomplete portrait.

January 29, 2021 | Rating: 2.5/4 | Full Review…

Roxana Hadadi
RogerEbert.com
It may all depend on the totality of your reactions, though, and whether you feel "Notturno"- in the panoply of Rosi's specialized, confident hybridizing of intimacy and distance - is a cooler gaze or something emotionally resonant.

January 29, 2021 | Full Review…

Robert Abele
Los Angeles Times
Rosi endlessly proves that he can turn the region's agony into the finest art, and proves enough that he hasn't lost sight of the human factor in the process.

January 27, 2021 | Rating: 3/4 | Full Review…

Bob Strauss
San Francisco Chronicle
For the steadiness of its images, for its quietude, Notturno is keen on showing us a world that endures beyond its scars. And its just as keen on depicting the scars that cannot be shaken.

January 25, 2021 | Rating: 4/5 | Full Review…

K. Austin Collins
Rolling Stone
Rosi's compositions, static and mostly wide angle, are ennobling, albeit ambiguously. Life is going on, but not as usual.

January 23, 2021 | Rating: B | Full Review…

Ignatiy Vishnevetsky
AV Club
Rosi has stripped his film of all documentary conventions. There are no voice-overs, no talking heads or experts. The result leaves space for the viewer's own emotional reaction to the lives of the survivors.

March 1, 2021 | Rating: A-plus | Full Review…

Karen Gordon
Original Cin
Beautifully shot, deeply moving photo journalism and a potent movie about living in a region ravaged by war and terrorism.

February 12, 2021 | Rating: 3.5/4 | Full Review…

Peter Canavese
Celluloid Dreams
Notturno builds some empathy, but only of a vague, fleeting variety. That might be enough for winning cinematic awards and pleasing the festival circuit. But...

February 12, 2021 | Full Review…

Anthony Kao
Cinema Escapist
An egrossing experience that bears witness as few other works have done to the most innocent victims of war.

February 2, 2021 | Rating: 4/5 | Full Review…

Andrea Chase
Killer Movie Reviews
Notturno is not the type of movie that has mass appeal because of the often-disturbing subject matter and because it's not a typical war documentary ... Notturno conveys ... the resilience of the people in these war-torn areas.

February 2, 2021 | Full Review…

Carla Hay
Culture Mix
This impressionistic nonfiction survey shot over three years' course captures life amongst those fleeing civil wars, ISIS, foreign invasions and more, in the borderlands between Iraq, Syria, Lebanon and Kurdistan.

February 2, 2021 | Full Review…

Dennis Harvey
48 Hills