Inspired by a very real and transformative moment... [the film] threads a delicately complex story of a chance encounter between two Indigenous women with drastically different lived experience, navigating the aftermath of domestic abuse.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Sep 8, 2020

It's Nelson's presence which is most crucial to this film's success: her non-professional acting allows for many moving transitions between expressions of bravado and woundedness.

| Jul 29, 2020

The Body Remembers When the World Broke Open relies on lengthy single takes to build intimacy and trust between us as viewers and the female characters at its center.

| Mar 25, 2020

It's rare to find a film of such bottomless depths.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Jan 9, 2020

An exquisitely felt human drama.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Dec 31, 2019

The film did something miraculous, capturing not only the atmosphere and air of the city itself but also the ineffable, often silent mysteries of female experience and communion.

| Dec 27, 2019

The filmmakers have constructed a world that you'll remember when it broke your heart open.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Dec 23, 2019

This is an excellent feature, and an achievement that is both boldly presented and delicately intimate.

| Original Score: 8/10 | Dec 22, 2019

The technique embeds us with these two women. The Body Remembers is about poverty, privilege and two very different experiences of being Indigenous in Canada.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Dec 18, 2019

A story of a very honest synopsis. [Full Review in Spanish]

| Dec 13, 2019

The filmmakers leave much to our imagination and empathy in this barebones and deeply affecting film. Newcomer [Violet] Nelson has tremendous presence, gravity and authenticity.

| Dec 13, 2019

Quietly illustrates the eternal conundrum of trying to be good without being a do-gooder, and trying to be independent while also recognizing the need for a helping hand.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Dec 12, 2019

The story is raw and real and, if one sticks with it, rewarding.

| Dec 9, 2019

When a movie is packed with this much craft and topical import...I feel obligated as a film fan to tell as many people as possible about the cinematic experience they may be missing out on.

| Dec 3, 2019

As simple as the film is, The Body Remembers When the World Broke Open is tremendously affecting for how well it's acted, edited, and filmed.

| Dec 3, 2019

Refreshingly digested in its stark observations about feminine displacement, The Body Remembers When the World Broke Open is openly candid and courageous in its intimacy that range from jeopardized motherhood to the perils of an inevitable chaotic legacy.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Dec 1, 2019

The Body Remembers When the World Broke Open is beautiful in its tragedy, artistic in its truth. It did indeed 'break the world open' by telling a story that many non-Indigenous have tried to silence for too long.

| Original Score: 9.8/10 | Nov 29, 2019

Subtle and involving.

| Nov 28, 2019

Filmed almost entirely in real time, and using a series of long, intimate takes, "The Body Remembers" is about privilege and its lack, motherhood and its absence, race and its legacy.

| Nov 28, 2019

Establishes an immediate, urgent language all its own to confront the problem of domestic abuse, making the issue personal for both the characters and their audience.

| Nov 28, 2019