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- 2019
- TV-MA
- 1 h 45 m
- 2019
- TV-MA
- 1 h 45 m
Summary Two Indigenous women living very different lives are briefly brought together by desperate circumstances.
Directed By: Kathleen Hepburn, Elle-Máijá Tailfeathers
Written By: Kathleen Hepburn, Elle-Máijá Tailfeathers
- 2019
- TV-MA
- 1 h 45 m
- 2019
- TV-MA
- 1 h 45 m
The Body Remembers When the World Broke Open
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Summary Two Indigenous women living very different lives are briefly brought together by desperate circumstances.
Directed By: Kathleen Hepburn, Elle-Máijá Tailfeathers
Written By: Kathleen Hepburn, Elle-Máijá Tailfeathers
Where to Watch
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Metascore
Universal Acclaim
Based on 8 Critic Reviews
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Metascore
Universal Acclaim
Based on 8 Critic Reviews
87
100% Positive
8 Reviews
8 Reviews
0% Mixed
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0% Negative
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Don’t let its florid, mouthful of a title mislead you: The Body Remembers When the World Broke Open is a film that’s as urgent and unpretentious as it is remarkable. It’s safe to say you haven’t seen too many movies quite like it.
What has been crafted with The Body Remembers When The World Broke Open is the multitudinous reality of past and present, absent and material; a world-affirming space of narrative realization that speaks to those who exist within the efforts and “now” of survival.
Filmed almost entirely in real time, and using a series of long, intimate takes, “The Body Remembers” is about privilege and its lack, motherhood and its absence, race and its legacy.
Stands out in a field of generic, cookie-cutter dramas, not simply in terms of representation — though the female-made, indigenous-focused thriller offers a field day for intersectionality theorists — but also in the unconventional way the story unfolds.
There's a wrenching sadness to this simply told story, but also but also a heartrending hope.
The Body Remembers When the World Broke Open is a genuine social realist film and the fact that it is shot in real-time only heightens the sense of reality. Everything is authentic.
The lack of dramatic fireworks mute the film’s impact somewhat. And young Ms. Nelson has an unfortunate tendency to mumble, swallow her lines.
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Production Company
Experimental Forest Films,
Oslo Pictures,
Violator Films,
William F. White International
Release Date Nov 22, 2019
Duration 1 h 45 m
Rating TV-MA
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Awards
Canadian Screen Awards, CA
• 3 Wins & 6 Nominations
Vancouver Film Critics Circle
• 3 Wins & 5 Nominations
American Indian Film Festival
• 3 Nominations
