What You Gonna Do When the World's on Fire?

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Antoine Héraly

Personne n'égale Minervini dans cette veine de la "mise en scène documentaire", et ce film est particulièrement virtuose. Selon moi le meilleur documentaire depuis des années.

teddy rennie

not for me, large amounts of dialogue which prove irrelevet to the vague and disparate plot.

Bilouaustria

CINEMA _ Once again with Minervini, the intimacy is off the charts, but he previously spent two years around Judy and co in New Orleans before even starting to shoot. There is little distance but it doesn’t mean it’s exhibitionnist, quite the opposite : they have so much faith in him that they forget the camera. Since «The other side», Minervini went full circle and the two works complement well each other.

kinotopia

really powerful albeit confusing narrative. there's a lot to unpack that's crammed into one movie, where some of the details seem over-emphasized compared to others. left me feeling inspired after watching it at Facets to an audience of two.

deepbluemachine

BLACK POWER!!!! La policia es un cuerpo paramilitar creado para proteger un sector de la sociedad. A.C.A.B.

Not A Sexy Vampire

Had the most walkouts of any MIFF2019 movie I've seen so far. It's slow, deliberate pacing is not for everyone but the rage and pain of the African American people in the film is palpable and urgent. Maybe needs an edit (the kids in particular feel superflous) but it's powerful nonetheless. "They don't need to say white power, they legislate." Challenging and brutal.

Renton47

Faces and testimonies practically fuel everything powerful on display - which is to say individuals. Admittedly I didn't find Fire the most unified statement, but it contains extraordinary passages about community outreach, about inherited trauma and the therapy of chanting/performance/call & response. In every individual the camera locates it finds an unique humanity; the result is humbling 3.5

pirri

1,5/5

Mihai Cristea

7/10

NCMBianchi

[More like 4.5] Minervini managed again to depict - through his simple and peculiar way of making documentary movies - a group of people and their cores: young kids growing up aware and afraid, adults facing their memories from the past and economic problems from today, and the new black panthers share the screen and show the hurdles and struggles that the black community has to endure even today.

Arianna Alfano

A political film that, as the producer Paolo Benzi said, rather than imposing its view on the spectator, is capable of listening to its characters.

msmichel

TIFF '18 One of the year's best. Minervini trains his camera on a group of African Americans living in New Orleans and Jackson County Mississippi. His focus is on daily life and challenges looking at a bar owner, some young brothers and a woman leading a chapter of the New Black Panthers. This is observational cinema at its very best with stark, impressive b&w cinematography by Suarez-Llanos. Masterpiece.

OldGermanCurrency

2,5