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  Review by Narin ★★★★

  No funeral, no goodbye, just a life full of memories.

  A story about love and loss. 
  Here 'Narcosis' characters they feel anger, anguish and denial, each of them cocooned in their own sac of misery, unable to say what they feel, even to themselves. Grief here is as messy as it is in real life. 

  🥀 : Death leaves a heartache no one can heal

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  Review by Nizar Ezzeddine ★★★★

  هل نحن من تغمرنا الذكريات أم نحن من نغمرها؟
  دراسة نفسية عميقة في أثر الفقدان. مؤلم جداً في بحثه السيكولوجي عن ملء مستحيل للفراغ بطريقة لا تحاول إثارة دموعك.. إلى أن تنفجر بحد ذاتها.
  مناسب للمشاهد الصبور فقط وعشاق الدراما الثقيلة

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  Review by nadja ★★★★★

  Ik kan even geen andere film meer kijken. Dit is het. Het is lang geleden (misschien wel zelden) dat een film me zo diep heeft geraakt, en op zo’n persoonlijk niveau. Ik heb de hele film door gehuild en was me er zo onbewust van dat ik dit in een zaal zat te kijken en niet ergens in de grote achtertuin tussen hun stond alles mee te beleven. Hoe groot verlies ook is, hier deed het me denken aan de kleine dingen. Soms wil je gewoon even met hun praten, hun stem opzoeken, dat ze je even aanraken en hopen dat ze snel weer terug komen. Ik vond dat het verwerkingsproces erg goed in beeld werd gebracht, met name de fysieke leegte. Niets willen veranderen om te blijven herinneren hoe het er voor was. De prachtige muziek liet me steeds weer harder huilen.

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  Review by Loay ★★★★½

  فيلم عظيم جدًا لا اجد شي فيه لم يعجبني، مخرج صاعد لم اسمع عنه يوما، يحمل كاميراه بكل حُب وشغف يسطر بها اقصوصه بسيطه و يطرح معضله الذكرى والفقد التي يتقاسمها ٧ مليار إنسان على قيد الحياة تجربة عظيمة جدًا عتبي البسيط كان على الايقاع بالفيلم.

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  Review by Freek 👑 ★★★★★

  Dit deed zoveel pijn… ik vond het prachtig. De achterklep, de figuurtjes in het plafond, hoe zij rookt in rouw. Auw

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  Review by Sarah_Ali ★★★½ 3

  Sometimes, we can't get over it.....

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  Review by Mariana Simas ★★★★

  Finalmente depois de muito tempo encontro um filme europeu intimista, contido e com pontas soltas e dubiedades que instigam a nossa percepção. ''Narcosis'' é um filme profundo sobre a dor da ausência e o luto incompleto. Lembranças e a dor das incertezas se confundem com o fantasioso, mas nada é tão claro e simples. Não é um filme fácil e Thekla Reuten se sai bem nessa busca por respostas enquanto tenta ser forte para si e seu filhos, ela está fisicamente muito parecida com a Binoche, em todos os sentidos.

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  Review by Charaqua ★★★★½

  Tender and simple depiction of grief. 
  It packs mighty punches in small mundane moments. 
  My heart breaks a little, a lot of times, during the duration of this.  

  The film only depicts calm and slow day-to-day activity, but it effectively shows the lingering grief and sadness in everything. 

  I love how there’s no big explosion/ conclusion because I feel like that’s what usually happens. 
  Life goes on, and you grieve in silence and also accept in silence. 

  There might be no momentous thing, but grief is silently carried for the rest of their life.
  And once they are able to move on, it doesn’t make life suddenly change and everything become okay again, but I hope that they can breathe a little bit easier.

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  Review by michał wasilewski ★★★

  2023 International Oscar Submissions - #24 🇳🇱

  I can’t come for you yet. But I’m practising.

  Narcosis is a poignant meditation on grief, working towards realisation that processing loss does not mean that the pain will ever go away. With its beautiful, melancholic piano soundtrack, it regularly juxtaposes the gloomy present with blissful memories, providing just enough context to invite the viewer to join the therapeutic journey.

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  Review by sarah ★★★★½ 1

  fed mooi ja

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  Review by vraagtekenss ★★★½

  it was just very oscar baity at times , the acting was great even with the kinda cringy dialog dutch movies always seem to have. the child actors were good. its a top tier dutch film. theres just the her being a medium type person for work thats kinda eh but it works in the movie, its a it was really slow but not in a bad way.

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  Review by Gilang Hagi Andawan ★★★★ 3

  Dealing with loss is mostly difficult, teary and painful. The long process of finally accepting and willing to saying a farewell must take some dramas and possible crazy actions. It's natural, it's what we called grieving.

  The farewell scene with self acceptance call in a phone booth hits me real hard. It's so emotional yet beautiful in the same time.

  "Thessaloniki Film Festival"