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Beyond Utopia
Directed by
Madeleine Gavin
PG-13
2023
1h 56m
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7.9
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The story of several families as they attempt to escape oppression in North Korea, revealing a world most of us have never seen.
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Cast of Beyond Utopia
Barbara Demick
Self
Kim Sung-eun
Self
Lee Hyeon-seo
Self
Lee So-yeon
Self
Kim Jong-un
Self (archive footage)
Kim Jong-il
Self (archive footage)
Kim Il-sung
Self (archive footage)
Kim Jong-nam
Self (archive footage)
Jang Song-thaek
Self (archive footage)
Ri Sol-ju
Self (archive footage)
Douglas MacArthur
Self (archive footage)
Madeleine Gavin
Director / Writer / Second Unit Director Of Photography / Archival Footage Research
Geralyn White Dreyfous
Executive Producer
Jana Edelbaum
Producer
Rachel Cohen
Producer
Sue Mi Terry
Producer
Nina Fialkow
Executive Producer
David Fialkow
Executive Producer
Sharon Chang
Executive Producer
Michael Y. Chow
Executive Producer
Beyond Utopia Ratings & Reviews
Los Angeles Times
Robert Abele
Documentaries with life-or-death stakes, not to mention wider resonance in our increasingly unsettled geopolitical world, don't get much more nerve-racking... At the same time, the film is inspiring about the lengths people will go to for a better life.
AWFJ.org
Sherin Nicole
It is a painful film, filled with shredded spirits, brutalization, death, and propaganda so profound it masquerades as spiritual faith... The lives, imagery, and stories are real. They cut deeper because of it.
What She Said
Anne Brodie
Forget ostentatious military parades, we see a brutal, harsh, primitive, and desperately deprived reality. Gavin's courageous work, putting one of the worst, most dangerous countries in the world under the microscope is essential viewing.
RogerEbert.com
Glenn Kenny
A bracing and frequently jaw-dropping look at, first and foremost, the discontented people of North Korea who attempt defections doggedly.
New York Times
Ben Kenigsberg
Being able to experience the escape alongside these subjects greatly distinguishes this documentary.
Washington Post
Mark Jenkins
Beyond Utopia contains background material on the history, culture and travails of North Korea that's necessary but clunkily presented... But the rest of the movie is fresh and compelling.
NYC Movie Guru
Avi Offer
Gripping, heartfelt and unflinching. Prepare for one of the most edge-of-your-seat and haunting documentaries of the year.
The Film Stage
Michael Frank
The film haunts its viewers, giving a glimpse into a rarely seen culture and an unseen journey that results in only life-giving or life-taking outcomes. Beyond Utopia is a must-see historical and human document.
Slant Magazine
Derek Smith
The searing images of various gulags, public executions, and private beatings will not be easily forgotten.
OurQuadCities / WHBF-TV (Illinois)
Linda Cook
It's a wrenching, must-see documentary.
The Michael Medved Show
Michael Medved
This documentary plays out like a thriller, but the stories are true and the scenes are gripping and intimate.
Eye for Film
Amber Wilkinson
Beyond being nailbiting - a feeling driven by Hyun Seok Kim's 'heartbeat' score that quickens our own - Gavin's film is also an eye-opener.
Harper's Bazaar
Tomris Laffly
Unforgiving, high-stakes and clear-eyed about the devastatingly brainwashing powers of elongated oppression, Beyond Utopia will be talked about well into the awards season with its extraordinary vision.
Geeks of Color
Rendy Jones
Beyond Utopia is an essential, urgent viewing that everyone must see... It's a groundbreaking and devastating tale of human resilience, existing in an inhumane government, unlike anything I've ever seen before.
Next Best Picture
Tom O'Brien
What Gavin, her crew, and the brokers & family members who filmed the journey have accomplished is remarkable
The Ringer
Daniel Joyaux
An uncompromising look at the realities of people trying to defect from North Korea.
RogerEbert.com
Brian Tallerico
Instantly essential.
Nashville Scene
Cory Woodroof
Beyond Utopia is a breathless documentary with startling footage of a South Korean pastor who works to help dissidents escape North Korea.
IndieWire
Christian Zilko
Films like Beyond Utopia are the same as people like Pastor Kim -- their existence is a miracle, and we need to cherish every one we get.
The Hollywood Reporter
Daniel Fienberg
An intimate, real-life geopolitical thriller.
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