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The Hottest August
Directed by
Brett Story
2019
1h 34m
Documentary
6.4
84%
5.7
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Ordinary people in New York are asked to talk about their lives and their hopes for the future in a time marked by political division and climate change.
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Cast of The Hottest August
Clare Coulter
narrator
Brett Story
Director / Producer
Danielle Varga
Producer
Maida Brankman
Executive Producer
Sally Jo Fifer
Executive Producer
Lois Vossen
Executive Producer
Derek Howard
Director Of Photography
Nels Bangerter
Editor
Ernst Karel
Sound Engineer
Troy Herion
Music
The Hottest August Ratings & Reviews
Eyes Wide Open (Medium)
Chris Barsanti
A free-flowing and discursive essay about the future which already feels like a postcard from the past.
KDHX (St. Louis)
Diane Carson
Derek Howard's cinematography highlights the mundane beauty... Troy Herion's score adds an atmospheric but unobtrusive element.
San Diego Reader
Scott Marks
August 2017 was not the hottest on record. Not even close. If one can't get the title right, what chance is there of everything else falling into order?
Cinema76
Ryan Silberstein
...far from An Inconvenient Truth, and other activism or information-centric documentaries of its ilk...the subjects in the film are offering their own perspective in words, not in facts and figures.
Screen Slate
Patrick Dahl
Attempting to make the abyss legible, The Hottest August might be the most devastating film ever made.
Variety
Peter Debruge
No movie can encompass everything that's on the minds of Americans at the moment, but Story's modest but wide-ranging cine-essay comes closest, constructed in such a way that no two audiences will see it the same way.
Eye for Film
Jennie Kermode
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.
Los Angeles Times
Robert Abele
But sometimes an experiment feels like just an experiment, and that's where the well-intentioned query "The Hottest August" ultimately lands.
New York Times
Glenn Kenny
This collection of interactions with ordinary people is a cinematic gift both simple and multilayered, an intellectual challenge and an emotional adventure.
Battleship Pretension
David Bax
Story's eye for visual metaphors is so sharp that you'd almost suspect some of these shots were staged.
AV Club
Ignatiy Vishnevetsky
While it never feels completely defeatist, [Story's] film offers scattered snapshots of an uncertain society in its dog days.
Slant Magazine
Christopher Gray
The documentary represents a city ground down by inequality and division, where millions of selves who have by and large given up on one another.
The Daily Beast
Cassie da Costa
Brett Story knows how to ask good questions and then interpret the answers she receives-no matter how spicy, offensive, banal, or surprising-beyond the individual who speaks them.
Film Inquiry
Shawn Glinis
The Hottest August isn't a chore by any means but has trouble balancing its tone.
Slant Magazine
Carson Lund
The film drifts subtly from subject to subject, pointedly using B roll not just to provide a sense of place, which it does evocatively, but to extend someone's thought or offer counterpoint.
Flixist.com
Matthew Razak
There's no drive to it, aimlessly meandering around New York trying to prove a point when there isn't one.
Slate
Sam Adams
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.
Slashfilm
Abby Olcese
The observational elements of The Hottest August are as excellent as anything this extremely promising filmmaker has done, but it's to an uncertain end.
Moveable Fest
Stephen Saito
"The Hottest August" is nonetheless resplendent when it comes to showing people of all walks of life co-existing in the same place.
The Hollywood Reporter
Caryn James
The Hottest August is ambitious and carefully thought-through, but its scattershot, no-context approach undermines it in the end.
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