Patience (After Sebald)
Patience (After Sebald)
A richly textured essay film on landscape, art, history, life and loss, Patience (After Sebald) offers a unique exploration of the work of internationally acclaimed writer W.G. Max Sebald via a walk through East Anglia tracking his most influential book, The Rings of Saturn.
3.2 out of 5 based on 10 reviews
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Omniscore:
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| Certificate |
15 |
| Genre |
Documentary |
| Director |
Grant Gee |
| Cast |
W. G. Max Sebald Jonathan Pryce |
| Studio |
Soda Pictures |
| Release Date |
January 2012 |
| Running Time |
90 mins |
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A richly textured essay film on landscape, art, history, life and loss, Patience (After Sebald) offers a unique exploration of the work of internationally acclaimed writer W.G. Max Sebald via a walk through East Anglia tracking his most influential book, The Rings of Saturn.
Reviews
The Observer
Philip French
"Modest, immensely enjoyable.
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20/01/2012
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The Financial Times
Nigel Andrews
"It just shows. It can take a stranger from a strange land to point out first, to his adoptive countrymen, the strangeness and wonder of their own land."
26/01/2012
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Total Film
Sam Wigley
"A suitably arty attempt to convey some of the book’s rich patchwork of allusions and digressions. "
16/01/2012
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The Times
Kevin Maher
"One for the adventurous chin-stroking cineaste."
27/01/2012
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Empire Magazine
Ian Nathan
"Gee retraces Sebald’s footsteps for a halfway effective “aesthetic response” to his writing — a literary pop video of monochrome imagery that falls short of the grace of his prose."
23/01/2012
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The Evening Standard
The Evening Standard
"Gee ... conducts his quiet study with considerable skill, refusing to answer too many questions about this complicated and often pessimistic figure but giving us copious clues as to why he was regarded as one of Europe's most important post-war writers."
27/01/2012
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The Guardian
Xan Brooks
"In keeping with the spirit of Sebald's writing, Gee's film is teasing, elegant and perhaps inevitably unresolved."
27/01/2012
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The Independent
Anthony Quinn
"Plainly it's required viewing for his readers, though the reverential lit-crit tone and non-cinematic scale might not seduce the uninitiated. BBC4 is the film's natural habitat."
27/01/2012
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The Sunday Times
Edward Porter
"A good guide for newcomers to Sebald and a worthwhile resource for his fans.
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29/01/2012
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Time Out
Nigel Floyd
"Least successful are Gee’s attempts to capture Sebald’s elusive, self-mythologising persona, which merely end with his wandering off the point."
23/01/2012
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