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The Human Surge
Directed by
Eduardo Williams
Not Rated
2016
1h 36m
Drama
5.7
58%
50%
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Three young people from different parts of the world and seemingly unrelated to each other live similar experiences.
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Cast of The Human Surge
Sergio Morosini
Shine Marx
Domingos Marengula
Chai Fonacier
Irene Doliente Paña
Manuel Asucan
Rixel Manimtim
Eduardo Williams
Director / Writer
Rodrigo Teixeira
Producer
The Human Surge Ratings & Reviews
Filmmaker Magazine
Vadim Rizov
This is a wholly original work, and that's worth more than any notion of success or failure. I'd argue it's super pleasurable as well, but your mileage may vary; definitely check out Could See a Puma first.
n+1
A.S. Hamrah
This is post-Costa cinema, slow but chopped to average feature length, puzzling, engrossing, and alienating.
Newcity
Ray Pride
Starting in Argentina, ranging to Mozambique and the Philippines, The Human Surge picks figures from the blur of the modern world and depicts them in shadowed motion, language an indistinct gesture, too.
Paste Magazine
Dom Sinacola
Williams is a gifted director who only has better films in front of him; he appears to be a guy with a concise vision making exactly what he wants to make. Which might be why The Human Surge can't quite connect: Williams only made this for himself.
Nonfics (Substack)
Daniel Walber
This conundrum that can be found all over the Internet, to be sure, but rarely with such enigmatic eroticism or breathtaking technique. Like the best nonfiction work of the past few years, it encourages us to look differently at every moving image we see.
Artforum
Nick Pinkerton
It makes for an exhilarating, boldly paradoxical experience-a headlong dive into the rich, knotty, sticky undergrowth amid a proliferation of tidy, well-lit paths.
RogerEbert.com
Matt Fagerholm
Though the picture is admirable on a conceptual level, its execution is incoherent, interminable and a colossal strain on the eyes.
New York Times
Glenn Kenny
Just when you think you've got the movie pegged, it pulls a daring switch of perspective. While the thrill of that little coup is short-lived, it suggests that Mr. Williams may come up with something more substantial with his next feature.
Film Journal International
Nick Schager
A fill-in-the-blanks effort that goes out of its way to repel at every winding turn.
The Film Stage
Ethan Vestby
It's not so much deliberately confrontational in the way so many experimental films are (or pride themselves on being), but rather risk-taking for the sake of something almost impossible to articulate -- even if based in something obvious.
IndieWire
Eric Kohn
This is a heckuva stimulating cinematic achievement for a relative newcomer. The Human Surge offers a shrewd commentary on the dissonance of technological connectivity and personal communication.
Village Voice
Diana Clarke
Surreal and wordlessly unsettling, Eduardo Williams' globe-crossing feature The Human Surge is intimate and pleasurably inscrutable.
Willamette Week
Bennett Campbell Ferguson
If you enjoy sitting slumped in a theater while an ambitious filmmaker attempts to bore you to death, you shouldn't miss this stultifying feature debut from writer-director Eduardo Williams.
Slant Magazine
Carson Lund
The film's default state is an ambient inertia that gestures vaguely in multiple directions without concerning itself with the hard work of constructing an argument, a convincing milieu, or even a compelling mood.
Variety
Jessica Kiang
Lacking in narrative or character (the film is all theme and no story), the payoff moments for all one's carefully invested attention are few and far between.
Film Comment Magazine
Max Nelson
As an immersive, unpredictable sensory experience, on the other hand, this is a prodigious accomplishment from a filmmaker full of ideas about rhythm, texture, and scale.
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