Nominated for the 2020 Oscars, this damning documentary explores what happened during the 2014 Sewol Ferry disaster, where over three hundred people lost their lives, most of them school children
In the Absence is a gut-punch, an urgent piece of investigatory journalism where the methodical nature of its process barely masks a deeper anger. There is power inherent to the subject it explores, but it is also a finely constructed film, one we find novel in the way that it expertly utilizes archival footage from a plethora of sources to reconstruct, blow by blow, the passing minutes as a disaster turns to tragedy.
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Nominated for the 2020 Oscars, this damning documentary explores what happened during the 2014 Sewol Ferry disaster, where over three hundred people lost their lives, most of them school children
In the Absence is a gut-punch, an urgent piece of investigatory journalism where the methodical nature of its process barely masks a deeper anger. There is power inherent to the subject it explores, but it is also a finely constructed film, one we find novel in the way that it expertly utilizes archival footage from a plethora of sources to reconstruct, blow by blow, the passing minutes as a disaster turns to tragedy.
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Nominated for the 2020 Oscars, this damning documentary explores what happened during the 2014 Sewol Ferry disaster, where over three hundred people lost their lives, most of them school children
In the Absence is a gut-punch, an urgent piece of investigatory journalism where the methodical nature of its process barely masks a deeper anger. There is power inherent to the subject it explores, but it is also a finely constructed film, one we find novel in the way that it expertly utilizes archival footage from a plethora of sources to reconstruct, blow by blow, the passing minutes as a disaster turns to tragedy.
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