The Hottest August2019
The Hottest August (2019)
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But sometimes an experiment feels like just an experiment, and that's where the well-intentioned query "The Hottest August" ultimately lands.

This collection of interactions with ordinary people is a cinematic gift both simple and multilayered, an intellectual challenge and an emotional adventure.
While it never feels completely defeatist, [Story's] film offers scattered snapshots of an uncertain society in its dog days.

Even face to face with a bleak future, The Hottest August is steeped... delight, the kind that reminds us that there's beauty in the world, and a future that's worth fighting for.
The Hottest August is ambitious and carefully thought-through, but its scattershot, no-context approach undermines it in the end.
The film is beautifully lensed by Derek Howard, capturing distinct qualities in natural light, in the quantity of water in the air, which speak to its subject.
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