Time (2020 film)

Time is a 2020 American documentary film, directed and produced by Garrett Bradley. It follows Sibil Fox Richardson, fighting for the release of her husband, Rob, who is serving a 60-year prison sentence.

Time
Directed byGarrett Bradley
Produced by
  • Garrett Bradley
  • Kellen Quinn
  • Lauren Domino
Starring
  • Sibil Fox Richardson
  • Robert G. Richardson
Music by
  • Jamieson Shaw
  • Edwin Montgomery
Cinematography
  • Zac Manuel
  • Justin Zeifach
Edited byGabriel Rhodes
Production
companies
Distributed byAmazon Studios
Release date
  • January 25, 2020 (2020-01-25) (Sundance)
  • October 9, 2020 (2020-10-09) (United States)
Running time
81 minutes[1]
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish

It had its world premiere at the Sundance Film Festival on January 25, 2020, where it won the U.S. Documentary Directing Award. The film will be released theatrically on October 9, 2020, and on Prime Video on October 23, 2020, by Amazon Studios.

Plot

The film follows Sibil Fox Richardson (aka Fox Rich), an entrepreneur, abolitionist, author, and mother of six, as she fights for the release of her husband, Rob, serving a 60-year prison sentence in the Louisiana State Penitentiary for armed bank robbery. Rich served three and a half years for her role in the robbery. The film combines original footage with home videos.[2][3][4]

Production

Bradley met Rich in 2016, while working on her short film Alone, a New York Times Op-Doc.[2][5] She originally set out to make a short documentary about Rich, but after shooting wrapped, Rich gave Bradley a bag of mini-DV tapes containing some 100 hours of home videos that she had recorded over the past 18 years. At that point, Bradley transitioned the short into a feature.[2][6][7]

Time was shot on a Sony FS7 camera and finished in black and white.[5] It was selected for the 2019 Sundance Documentary Edit & Story Lab.[8] The film score is by Jamieson Shaw and Edwin Montgomery,[9] and it incorporates music by Emahoy Tsegué-Maryam Guèbrou that was recorded in 1964.[5][6] The film was produced by Lauren Domino, Kellen Quinn, and Bradley. Laurene Powell Jobs, Davis Guggenheim, Nicole Stott, Rahdi Taylor, and Kathleen Lingo are executive producers, Jonathan Silberberg and Shannon Dill are co-executive producers, and Dan Janvey is co-producer.[3]

Release

Time had its world premiere at the Sundance Film Festival on January 25, 2020.[10] In February 2020, Amazon Studios acquired distribution rights to the film.[11] It will also screen at the New York Film Festival in September 2020.[12] It is scheduled to be released theatrically on October 9, 2020, and on Prime Video on October 23, 2020.[13]

Reception

Critical response

Time holds a 91% approval rating on review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, based on 11 reviews, with a weighted average of 7.69/10.[14] Peter Debruge of Variety wrote that the film "will almost certainly rewire how Americans think about the prison-industrial complex" as it "challenges the assumption that incarceration makes the world a safer place."[15] Sheri Linden of The Hollywood Reporter called the film "gripping," describing it as a "concise and impressionistic account of love and waiting, of the American justice system and the fight to keep a family whole."[2] David Ehrlich of Indiewire gave it an A- and wrote, "Bradley's monumental and enormously moving 'Time' doesn't juxtapose the pain of yesterday against the hope of tomorrow so much as it insists upon a perpetual now. And while the documentary never reduces its subjects to mere symbols of the oppression they represent - the film couldn't be more personal, and it builds to a moment of such unvarnished intimacy that you can hardly believe what you're watching."[4] Justin Chang of the Los Angeles Times said the film is "a dazzling formal feat, but more than that, it's a profoundly sad movie about what it means to grow up without a father, to absorb that blow continually, day after day."[16] Ashley Clark of Filmmaker magazine wrote that the film's "graceful compositions, flowing sonic landscape and at times breathtaking interpolation of Fox Rich's home video archive footage cohere to form a singularly powerful experience."[5]

Accolades

At the 2020 Sundance Film Festival, Bradley won the Directing Award in the U.S. Documentary competition,[17] becoming the first African American woman to win in the U.S. Documentary category.[18] At the 2020 Full Frame Documentary Film Festival, the film won the Center for Documentary Studies Filmmaker Award and the Charles E. Guggenheim Emerging Artist Award.[19] It won the James Blue Award at the 2020 Ashland Independent Film Festival.[20]

References
  1. "Time". Sundance Film Festival. Retrieved June 4, 2020.
  2. Linden, Sheri (25 January 2020). "'Time': Film Review". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved 13 August 2020.
  3. Morgan, Jillian (21 February 2020). "Amazon Studios acquires Garrett Bradley Sundance doc "Time"". Real Screen. Retrieved 13 August 2020.
  4. Ehrlich, David (3 February 2020). "'Time' Review: A Poignant and Monumental Portrait of Mass Incarceration in America". Indiewire. Retrieved 13 August 2020.
  5. Clark, Ashley (7 July 2020). "The Past in the Present". Filmmaker. Retrieved 13 August 2020.
  6. Taubin, Amy (31 January 2020). "Interview: Garrett Bradley". Film Comment. Retrieved 13 August 2020.
  7. Dobbins, April (4 March 2020). "Time and Mucho Mucho Amor Top Miami Film Festival 2020's Documentary Offerings". Miami New Times. Retrieved 13 August 2020.
  8. ""Feels as if Time Is Unspooling in Front of Our Eyes": Editor Gabriel Rhodes on Time". Filmmaker. 25 January 2020. Retrieved 13 August 2020.
  9. Saito, Stephen (29 January 2020). "Sundance 2020 Review: Garrett Bradley Conveys the Great Power of "Time"". Moveable Fest. Retrieved 13 August 2020.
  10. Siegel, Tatiana (December 4, 2019). "Sundance Unveils Female-Powered Lineup Featuring Taylor Swift, Gloria Steinem, Abortion Road Trip Drama". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved June 4, 2020.
  11. Siegel, Tatiana (February 20, 2020). "Amazon Nabs Sundance Doc 'Time' for $5 Million (Exclusive)". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved June 4, 2020.
  12. "58th New York Film Festival Main Slate Announced". New York Film Festival. August 13, 2020. Retrieved August 13, 2020.
  13. Rubin, Rebecca (August 13, 2020). "Garrett Bradley's Documentary 'Time' Sets Theatrical Debut Before Launching on Amazon Prime Video (EXCLUSIVE)". Variety. Retrieved August 13, 2020.
  14. "Time (2020)". Rotten Tomatoes. Retrieved June 4, 2020.
  15. Debruge, Peter (4 February 2020). "'Time': Film Review". Variety. Retrieved 13 August 2020.
  16. Chang, Justin (3 February 2020). "Kenneth Turan and Justin Chang wrap up the 2020 Sundance Film Festival". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 13 August 2020.
  17. "Directing Award: U.S. Documentary — Time". Sundance Film Festival. Retrieved June 4, 2020.
  18. Boone, Keyaira (3 February 2020). "Black Women Take Home Top Directing Awards At Sundance Film Festival". Essence. Retrieved 13 August 2020.
  19. "2020 Award Winners". fullframefest.org. Retrieved 13 August 2020.
  20. LaBerge, Madison (17 June 2020). "Ashland Independent Film Festival announces winners virtually". Fox 26 Medford. Retrieved 13 August 2020.
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