THE HOTTEST AUGUST [DVD] Such an impression is clear

Such an impression is clear from the very first image — a security-camera perspective through which he’ll orchestrate his characteristic tensions

Hailed as “a doggone low-key crowdpleaser” (Hollywood Reporter) and “a beautiful film… that immerses us in a sense of life lived at the languid pace of an afternoon daydream” (The New York Times)

almost surreal distillation of a story by Heinrich Böll

the film becomes a tour de force

• The Breidjing Camp (2015

THE HOTTEST AUGUST [DVD] Such an impression is clearA complex portrait of a city and its inhabitants, THE HOTTEST AUGUST gives us a window into the collective consciousness of the present. The films point of departure is one city over one month: New York City, including its outer boroughs, during August 2017. Its a month heavy with the tension of a new President, growing anxiety over everything from rising rents to marching white nationalists, and unrelenting news of either wildfires or hurricanes on