Using the late WG Sebald's book "The Rings of Saturn" as its template, this documentary traces the immensely respected author's account of a walk through Suffolk; a tour which prompted tangential musings.... (Full plot summary below)
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Using the late WG Sebald's book "The Rings of Saturn" as its template, this documentary traces the immensely respected author's account of a walk through Suffolk; a tour which prompted tangential musings.
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| The New York TimesA.O. ScottIf he is a self-revealing writer, it is not in the usual, confessional sense, but rather because he seems so strongly present in his books, with a personality that is both the source and aftereffect of the prose. |
| Slant MagazineKenji FujishimaA wide-ranging piece of literary criticism brought to vivid cinematic life, bursting with ideas and inspired visual translations of them. |
| The A.V. ClubNoel MurrayPatience reveals through images and tone as well as through the interviews how Sebald yearned for restorative meaning in the places he toured, only to end up lost in thought. |
| VarietyRonnie ScheibGee follows Sebald's path with only occasional detours, while intermittently glimpsed talking heads fade in and out of artful black-and-white landscapes. |
| Total FilmSam WigleyAs Jonathan Pryce reads passages and academic voices take turns to chew over Sebald's visionary opus, B&W footage of country roadsides and wind-blasted coastlines turns rural Suffolk into something truly otherworldly. |
| New York PostFarran Smith NehmeA thoughtfully conceived and tastefully executed tribute to a venerated author. |
| Time OutDavid FearLook elsewhere if you want a linear timeline of Sebald's life or don't possess that titular virtue; everyone else will want to make a beeline to their local bookstore. |
| EmpireIan NathanWith so many films adapted from novels, it's nice to see cinema paying homage to unheralded greats of literature like Sebald. While this one often struggles to do justice to his sense of grandeur and poetry, it'll be manna for fans of the German's work. |
| The GuardianXan BrooksIn keeping with the spirit of Sebald's writing, Gee's film is teasing, elegant and perhaps inevitably unresolved: an invitation as opposed to a destination. |
