The Hottest August
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A complex portrait of a city and its inhabitants, The Hottest August gives us a window into the collective consciousness of the present. The film's point of departure is one city over one month: New York City, including its outer boroughs, during August 2017. It's a month heavy with the tension of a new President, growing anxiety over everything from rising rents to marching white nationalists, and unrelenting news of either wildfires or hurricanes on every coast. The film pivots on the question of futurity: what does the future look like from where we are standing? And what if we are not all standing in the same place? The Hottest August offers a mirror onto a society on the verge of catastrophe, registering the anxieties, distractions, and survival strategies that preoccupy ordinary lives.
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- Clare Coulter
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Metacritic
Nov 14, 2019
Sometimes an experiment feels like just an experiment, and that’s where the well-intentioned query The Hottest August ultimately lands.
Robert Abele
Los Angeles Times
Nov 14, 2019
This collection of interactions with ordinary people is a cinematic gift both simple and multilayered, an intellectual challenge and an emotional adventure.
Glenn Kenny
The New York Times
Nov 11, 2019
The documentary represents a city ground down by inequality and division, where millions of selves who have by and large given up on one another.
Christopher Gray
Slant Magazine
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