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Strangers shuffle into a nondescript room where they sit down for day three of a radical social experiment orchestrated by taboo-breaking artist Leigh Ledare.

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Calum Marsh Village Voice 06/19/2018
A documentary experience more intense and provocative than any in recent memory. Go to Full Review Lori Waxman Chicago Tribune 03/13/2018
The discourse is deeply honest, sincerely felt, full of vulnerability and absolutely dysfunctional. Go to Full Review Sam Adams Slate 03/13/2018
Watching The Task is an exercise in frustration, as exhaustive dissections of process turn inward and eventually feast on themselves...But eventually you realize the movie is studying you as well, or allowing you to study yourself. Go to Full Review Dan Schindel Hyperallergic 02/12/2020
The movie is a tesseract made of mirrors, implicating and absorbing all who see it, erasing the boundaries between viewer, artist, and subject. Go to Full Review Daniel Kasman MUBI 03/20/2018
It was the most frustrating film to watch at True/False, but it is also clearly one of the year's most powerful films, provocative in the best of ways. Go to Full Review Read all reviews

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11/25/2021 I really enjoyed this film. Funny in bits. Easy watch. See more Read all reviews
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Leigh Ledare

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Movie Info

Synopsis Strangers shuffle into a nondescript room where they sit down for day three of a radical social experiment orchestrated by taboo-breaking artist Leigh Ledare.
Director
Leigh Ledare
Genre
Documentary
Original Language
English