THE DAMNED
A film by Roberto Minervini
2024, 89 minutes
2024, 89 minutes
No. 464
Narrative
Narrative
Description
Directed by Roberto Minervini, the acclaimed director of What You Gonna Do When the World's on Fire?, The Other Side and Stop the Pounding Heart. Winter 1862. In the midst of the Civil War, the US Army sends a company of volunteer soldiers to the western territories, with the task of patrolling the uncharted borderlands. As their mission ultimately changes course, the meaning behind their engagement begins to elude them.
Festivals
Winner, Best Director Award, Cannes Film Festival
Official Selection, New York Film Festival
Official Selection, Toronto International Film Festival
Official Selection, Toronto International Film Festival
Reviews
“Critic’s Pick! Roberto Minervini’s intimate and impressionistic drama… The skies are overcast and the tone is contemplative in The Damned, as a small company of Union Army soldiers sets out in 1862 to explore the dangerously unmapped territories of the American West.” - The New York Times
“The Damned brings the Civil War to intimate life, obliquely and mesmerizingly…. consider it an origin story for Minervini’s perceptive, understated exploration of an America still in conflict.” - The Los Angeles Times
“A beautiful, meditative thing… has the spontaneous, intimate, and inevitably undramatic vibe of you-are-there nonfiction, as it trails after a troop of Union soldiers heading west to secure the frontier.” - The Village Voice
"Mesmerizing. A quietly intoxicating and existentially real war movie." - The Hollywood Reporter
“A beautiful, meditative thing… has the spontaneous, intimate, and inevitably undramatic vibe of you-are-there nonfiction, as it trails after a troop of Union soldiers heading west to secure the frontier.” - The Village Voice
"Mesmerizing. A quietly intoxicating and existentially real war movie." - The Hollywood Reporter
