Users
A dazzling documentary about the menacing nature of modern times and the fundamental beauty of cutting-edge progress.
Users
A mother wonders: will her children grow to love their perfect machines more than they love their imperfect mother? As technology advances, humankind spends little time questioning how the machines we use every day may end up changing us forever. Both intimate in scope and epic in scale, and featuring a score performed by the Kronos Quartet, Users is a Malickian journey into an invisible realm, compelling the viewer to contemplate their own relationship to technology and its impact on us and our world.
“Bracing, poetic, painterly...'Users' looks and sounds stunning.” —The Hollywood Reporter
“Truly moving and mind-blowing.” —David Fear, Rolling Stone
“A science fiction of our time; stunning nonfiction cinema." —Sophie Brown, Sight & Sound
"A science fiction film about the future of our children...Cinema at its most powerful."
—Le Monde
“Natalia Almada is brilliant. ['Users'] picks up where Chris Marker left off in relation to what will the future look like." —Amy Taubin
“Bracing, poetic, painterly...'Users' looks and sounds stunning.” —The Hollywood Reporter
“Truly moving and mind-blowing.” —David Fear, Rolling Stone
“A science fiction of our time; stunning nonfiction cinema." —Sophie Brown, Sight & Sound
"A science fiction film about the future of our children...Cinema at its most powerful."
—Le Monde
“Natalia Almada is brilliant. ['Users'] picks up where Chris Marker left off in relation to what will the future look like." —Amy Taubin
Genre
Documentary,
Technology,
Science,
Women and Film,
Avant Garde
Runtime
81
Language
English,
Spanish
Director
Natalia Almada
Awards:
Nominee, Grand Jury Prize ~ Documentary, Sundance Film Festival
Nominee, Directing Award ~ Documentary, Sundance Film Festival
FEATURED REVIEW
Wes Greene, Slant Magazine
Natalia Almada’s 'Users' begins with the Mexican-American filmmaker, through voiceover, detailing how people in the past were mired in the everyday minutiae of child rearing without the help of modern technology. She then goes on to descry the electric cradle that used to rock one of her children to ...
Played at
Glendale 6.15.23 - 6.15.23
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