Description
New technologies are transforming a 19th-century watchmaking town in Switzerland. Josephine, a young factory worker, produces the unrest wheel, swinging in the heart of the mechanical watch. Exposed to new ways of organizing money, time and labour, she gets involved with the local movement of the anarchist watchmakers, where she meets Russian traveller Pyotr Kropotkin.
Reviews
“Critic’s Pick! (A) marvelously crisp drama.”
—New York Times
“Cyril Schäublin’s UNREST is a gorgeous film.”
—Jared Mobarak, Hey, Have You Seen …?
“The imaginative vision on display here makes it a potent calling card for
Schäublin’s future filmmaking efforts.”
—Tom O’Brien, Next Best Picture
“What is it that makes Unrest a film that’s not only watchable but also delightful? That it’s a serious period film that doesn’t take itself too seriously. (…) Unrest is a revelation in the way period films can look like, talk, act, and age.”
—Savina Petkova, WeLoveCinema
“Schäublin depicts the process by which competing notions of time and space
are being reconciled, always in favor of capital.”
—Michael SicinskiIn, In Review Online
“Unrest”(was) appointment viewing on the festival circuit where it both enchanted and activated audiences around the world, (is) now reaching the U.S.”
—Stephen Saito. The Moveable Feast
“Schäublin’s approach is one of stripped-back precision.”
—Screen International
“There’s Cyril Schäublin’s utterly singular “Unrest,” a movie that is defiantly uncategorizable, unless you have a category earmarked “playful, otherworldly tales of watchmaking and anarchism in 1870s Switzerland”
—New York Times
“Cyril Schäublin’s intellectually ticklish, formally daring delight marks him out as a singular new filmmaking talent… Unrest exits as it entered: expertly balanced, as though by precision pincers under a magnifier, between the heavy ideas on its mind and the mischievous lightness in its heart”
—Variety
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