On July 25th, 2020, people all over the world filmed their lives and shared their stories to be part of a documentary film. When all the submissions were tallied, the filmmakers had received over 300,000 videos from 192 countries. The result is a stirring film about love, death, heartbreak, and hope that looks beyond geography and circumstance to explore what connects us as humans. Directed by Academy Award® winner Kevin Macdonald. Produced by legendary filmmaker Ridley Scot... (Full plot summary below)
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On July 25th, 2020, people all over the world filmed their lives and shared their stories to be part of a documentary film. When all the submissions were tallied, the filmmakers had received over 300,000 videos from 192 countries. The result is a stirring film about love, death, heartbreak, and hope that looks beyond geography and circumstance to explore what connects us as humans. Directed by Academy Award® winner Kevin Macdonald. Produced by legendary filmmaker Ridley Scott. And filmed by YOU.
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| Chicago Sun-TimesRichard RoeperLife in a Day 2020 is an affirmation of life, of the simple joys experienced by citizens of the planet over the course of a single day. We’d never have met any of them without this film, and we’re grateful for the opportunity to get to know them a little bit. |
| San Francisco ChronicleG. Allen JohnsonThere are so many rich, colorful scenes that it’s a worthy watch just as an ethnographic record of our planet in a moment of time. |
| The TelegraphRobbie CollinMacdonald and his team pull out enough affecting stories to hold your interest, whose scopes range from sweeping to intimate. |
| Los Angeles TimesMichael RechtshaffenEven as the concept of crowdsourcing isn’t as novel as it was at the time of the film’s predecessor and the 90-minute running time can feel unnecessarily expansive given the repetition of those pandemic-related sequences, “Life in a Day 2020” nevertheless serves as a telling time capsule. The world has never felt so compact. |
| Screen DailyAllan HunterThe material may be slicker but the novelty of the format has faded. |
| VarietyGuy LodgeLife in a Day 2020 is quick to fall back on tidy montage methods — grouped shots of babies being born, skydivers jumping from planes, believers grouped in prayer, mourners in cemeteries — that rather strenuously force a sense of global communion, rather than seeking and stressing life’s more diverse and disorienting juxtapositions. |
| IndieWireChristian BlauveltYou’re not likely to find a more jarring — and ultimately exhausting — collision of high pretension and low execution at Sundance this year than the crowdsourced YouTube doc Life in a Day 2020. |
| User ReviewJLuis_0012020 was chaotic, but the idea behind it could've been more bearable if it had at least had more coherence. Because life is very interesting, and despite some of its good moments, much of what is offered here, most of the time felt banal. The idea wasn't bad, but even in the face of the ambitious scale, it only scratches the surface. |
