Fresh
With only 74 slowly unfolding shots, it's closer to gallery installation than conventional cinema, but for audiences open to the experience, it's inexplicably compelling.
Trevor Johnston, Time Out
Overview
From the director of KOYAANISQATSI, an astonishing film that documents the drama of how we both live and witness what we experience. Shot in rich black and white Godfrey Reggio's latest film finds the full spectrum of emotion in human faces, gorgeous landscapes and even the behavior of an especially expressive gorilla.
Director and cast
- Godfrey Reggio Director
- Triska as Featured Gorilla
- Emily Shockey as Featured Human
- Juan Hernandez as Featured Human
- Jean Archer as Featured Human
- Avery King as Featured Human
- Rose S. Allen as Featured Human
- Audrey Manuel as Featured Human
- Raegan Sehdev as Featured Human
- Louis Mejia as Featured Human
- Julio Peralta as Featured Human
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
69%
Tomatometer
Fresh
Non-narrative films can be opaque in deep ways. Visitors slips into pseudo-profundity. That said, I'd see it again.
Bill Stamets, Chicago Sun-Times
Rotten
We get the point, and have gotten it since 1982. And aestheticizing it in this way doesn't make the message any more convincing or urgent.
Peter Keough, Boston Globe
Rotten
The "oh, come off it" art movie of 2014.
Colin Covert, Minneapolis Star Tribune
Rotten
Reggio has talked about his movies as attempts to bypass the intellect, a "visceral form of cinema" that's "aimed at your solar plexus." But you may experience "Visitors" as more of a sedative than a punch in the guts.
Walter V. Addiego, San Francisco Chronicle
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