The Seasons in Quincy: Four Portraits of John Berger
- Christopher Roth,
- Bartek Dziadosz,
- Tilda Swinton,
- Colin MacCabe - 2017
Synopsis
The Ways of Seeing writer is celebrated by Tilda Swinton and her fellow admirers in an unorthodox four-part documentary that visits him at his Alpine home
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Cast
- John BergerSelf
- Tilda SwintonSelf
- Colin MacCabeSelf
- Christopher RothSelf
- Akshi SinghSelf
- Ben LernerSelf
- Honor Swinton ByrneSelf
Recommendations
- 75
Slant Magazine
It insists that it's in moments of small talk, between life's larger events, that one finds vitality. - 70
The New York Times
The Seasons in Quincy: Four Portraits of John Berger is a challenging, sometimes poignant engagement with the man and his work. - 60
The Guardian
As a collection, The Seasons in Quincy certainly hangs together; it’s also an absolutely inspired way of approaching its subject. If the outcome is a little uneven; well, that’s the price that sometimes has to be paid. - 60
The Hollywood Reporter
Taken together, the shorts offer some scraps on Berger the man and the artist and thinker without really supplying a full overview, while also exploring some of his main preoccupations in ways that would benefit from at least some prior knowledge of his work. - 60
Time Out London
Some prior interest in Berger would help, but even newcomers should find this an infectious portrait of independent thought and living. - 60
CineVue
The Seasons in Quincy is most compelling when we and it listens to Berger or captures him listening to someone else. - 50
Village Voice
A warm and heartfelt but too often desultory and disorganized tribute to the down-to-earth intellectual. - 50
New York Post
The film can be rough going for those who know little of Berger’s work. That’s especially true of the second part, a stupefying collage about Berger’s home in rural Quincy, France.
