The Year of the Everlasting Storm

2021

Drama / Mystery

5
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Certified Fresh 94% · 35 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Spilled 14%
IMDb Rating 5.7/10 10 418 418

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Plot summary

Featuring seven stories from seven auteurs from around the world, the film chronicles this unprecedented moment in time, and is a true love letter to the power of cinema and its storytellers.

Director

David Lowery Photo
David Lowery

Top cast

Dongyu Zhou Photo
Dongyu Zhou as (segment "The Break Away")
Yu Zhang Photo
Yu Zhang as (segment "The Break Away")
Yay Yay Bobby Jones Photo
Yay Yay Bobby Jones as (as Bobby 'Yay Yay' Jones)
Catherine Machovsky Photo
Catherine Machovsky as
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1.09 GB
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English 2.0
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23.976 fps
2 hr 1 min
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1920*1080
English 5.1
PG
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23.976 fps
2 hr 1 min
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1280*720
English 2.0
PG
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23.976 fps
2 hr 1 min
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2.23 GB
1904*1072
English 5.1
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2 hr 1 min
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Movie Reviews

Reviewed by badelf 8 / 10

I read the reviews and poor scores for

I read the reviews and poor scores for this film so my expectations were low. But somewhere after the first couple stories, I asked myself the same question as these filmmakers did: "Tell me how you really feel about 2020 in 20 minutes?" I myself would've been at a loss. The question yields another perspective and appreciation for these stories. Even Lowery's it-takes-a-pandemic-to-get-me-to-dig-up-my-dead-brother wasn't bad. Chen's comment on the dramatic pandemic-related increase of domestic violence was spot on. Panahi's biopic of how our elders suffer differently than us was touching. Vitthal's heartwarming personal story just reminds us of the continuing class difference even in how the pandemic affected us. The pièce de résistance was, of course, the duality of Weerasethakul's Buddhist world-view that insects don't give a shit about your pandemic ego, dude. And Poitras? Well, I'm in the business. It's worse, and way more dangerous, than she says.
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Reviewed by lee_eisenberg 6 / 10

the year of living isolatedly

With 2020 undeniably marked by the coronavirus, filmmakers had to try a new way of making movies. For "The Year of the Everlasting Storm", a number of directors contributed to a project focusing on how the lockdowns had affected everyone. Probably the most significant is Laura Poitras's focus on an Israeli company's manufacturing of spyware used by the governments of the US, Mexico, Spain and Togo (something that Israel's supporters - one might call them cultists - are sure to deny).

This movie - a collaboration of the US, Chile, Iran, China and Thailand - isn't a masterpiece, but is a perceptive look at how artists can persist in trying times. I don't know if it's available on any streaming service, so you'll have to check out the neighborhood video stores (yes, they still exist).

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