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By Snoopysue (2) on 04 Oct 2017

Jen Brea was a student at Harvard when her life was devastated by a disease no doctor could diagnose…

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By Xoxo_Heidi (2) on 04 Oct 2017

This is not an easy to watch documentary but necessary for those working in healthcare as clinicians, surgeons, and support staff as well as…

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By Katie Walsh (1,279) for Los Angeles Times (12,977) on 01 Oct 2017

Unrest is a sensitive and arresting rally cry for increased awareness about this disease, and an existential exploration of the meaning of…

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By Anita Katz (182) for San Francisco Examiner (1,621) on 28 Sep 2017

As often happens with video diaries, the film is limited in scope…

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By Ben H (1,875) on 28 Sep 2017

The film is both bold and intimate…

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By Ben Sachs (546) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 27 Sep 2017

Director Jennifer Brea has ME herself, and she structures the film around footage from her own video diaries; these excerpts personalize the…

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By Sherilyn Connelly (422) for SF Weekly (560) on 27 Sep 2017

Brea shot much of the film on her iPhone, which often gives it the tone of a found-footage horror film…

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By G. Allen Johnson (514) for San Francisco Chronicle (7,630) on 26 Sep 2017

Like many first-person medical documentaries — such as the recent “Gleason” — Unrest can be really hard to watch…

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By Don H (118) on 23 Sep 2017

The universal themes in Unrest will compel you to follow this journey from beginning to end. It is a love story. It is a battle cry…

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By Glenn Kenny (1,728) for RogerEbert.com (5,563) on 22 Sep 2017

A documentary that serves a vital function…

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By Eric Kohn (1,203) for Indiewire (3,631) on 20 Sep 2017

Unrest works particularly well once Brea looks beyond the limitations of her own bedridden experiences to document other cases worldwide, providing…

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By John Defore (1,351) for The Hollywood Reporter (7,050) on 20 Sep 2017

Using her own experience with the syndrome as a springboard, Brea offers an affecting film…

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By Dennis Harvey (1,137) for Variety (12,700) on 20 Sep 2017

Though the “Patient, film thyself” concept is starting to risk overexposure...Unrest is a high-grade example of the form that’s consistently…

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By Daniel M. Gold (107) for The New York Times (9,847) on 20 Sep 2017

It powerfully insists on giving a voice to victims whose greatest challenge, apart from their symptoms, is surmounting a world of indifference…

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By Harvey S. Karten (2,210) for Shockya.com (657) on 15 Sep 2017

Brea offers a surprisingly energetic look at chronic fatigue syndrome, which has derailed her life…

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By Lesley H (42) on 11 Jun 2017

A true must see, I have not stopped thinking of this movie since I saw it…

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By Craig Takeuchi (26) for Georgia Straight (1,078) on 04 May 2017

The film is both a chronicle of how the illness devastates lives (as Brea puts it, it was as if she died but was forced to watch the world…

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By Oliver C (167) on 01 Feb 2017

This is an incredibly powerful emotional rollercoaster ride, as patients with M.E. tell their stories of medical neglect (mostly women)…

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