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Double Freedom

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Misael works alone with his axe, cutting down trees in the woods. An unexpected responsibility upends his life, and the logic of his days fades away in a nature where human reason holds no meaning.

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Jordan Mintzer The Hollywood Reporter 5d
Double Freedom posits that life is best lived on your own terms, with few concessions and compromises. This is, of course, the formula Alonso applies to his cinema as well. Go to Full Review
Vadim Rizov IndieWire May 18
A-
Arriving at a moment when the pope has called for films to be more attentive to D.W. Griffith’s oft-cited “beauty of the moving wind in the trees,” this textbook piece of slow cinema is precisely on schedule. Go to Full Review
Beatrice Loayza Variety May 18
A degree of levity is achieved by this featherlight absurdity, which adds, if not hopefulness, at least humanity to the bleakness of the socioeconomic conditions so naturalistically built out. Go to Full Review
Padaí Ó Maolchalann In Review Online 1d
As landmark, statement-making movies go, Double Freedom could also hardly be less fitting, yet... In an appropriately minor way, this is a major movie. Go to Full Review
Fernando E. Juan Lima EscribiendoCine 6d
9/10
Built from small details, Catalina Saavedra's performance...is remarkably concise, sensitive, and intelligent. [Full review in Spanish] Go to Full Review
Jara Yáñez Caimán Cuadernos de Cine 6d
The film's allegorical power stems from its direct connection to reality, from its simple and unadorned observation that revives the best traditions of slow cinema … [Full review in Spanish] Go to Full Review
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Movie Info

Synopsis Misael works alone with his axe, cutting down trees in the woods. An unexpected responsibility upends his life, and the logic of his days fades away in a nature where human reason holds no meaning.
Director
Lisandro Alonso
Producer
Fernando Bascuñán, Augusto Matte, Lisandro Alonso
Screenwriter
Lisandro Alonso
Production Co
Planta, Deptford, 4L
Genre
Drama
Original Language
Spanish
Runtime
1h 40m