The Work 2017 Watch Free in HD

A documentary about three men from abroad taking part in a four-day collective treatment retreat with four convicted persons in a single room in Folsom Prison. In some cases, there are several life sentences for violent crimes. Most of them will not be released,However, a handful of these most secure prisoners are committed to perfecting their senses, communicating with their emotions, and making them an attempt to help strangers do the same.

Genre:

Documentary

Actors:

Brian, Chris, Vegas, Dark Cloud, Kiki, Charles

Director:

Jairus McLeary, Gethin Aldous

Country:

United States

Release:

2017

IMDb:

7.8

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Duration:

89 min

TheWrap

A simple, tense, gritty auditing of a collective unburdening that obviously brings some needed clarity, and the promise of rehabilitation, to some hurt, searching souls.

October 25, 2017

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Alternate Ending

Incredibly human and filled with a wisdom that only comes from great suffering.

December 23, 2017

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Cinema Scope

The daring approach of McLeary and Aldous' filmmaking, completely immersive without trying to be invisible or to influence the chain of events, is ... proven to have been a risk worth taking.

March 21, 2018

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New York Times

Opening an aperture into a process so ego-stripping that it feels unseemly to witness, "The Work" is enlightening yet also punishing.

October 26, 2017

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Observer (UK)

Sceptics may enter Folsom with suspicion, but these are extraordinary scenes, so shocking and dynamic they might be mistaken for exorcisms.

December 28, 2017

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Time Out

Some context is lost in favour of a lot of weeping and wailing, but this remains an eye-opening experience.

September 07, 2017

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Financial Times

Never has a 4,000-year-old aphorism seemed more devastatingly of the moment. But the results are inspiring: it seems The Work works.

December 28, 2017

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RogerEbert.com

By simply watching the participants talk about their feelings, sometimes in the vaguest of terms, McLeary illustrates how men build strong façades to conceal their pain from others and themselves.

October 25, 2017

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Los Angeles Times

The movie valuably demonstrates how, for some, when it comes to rehabilitation, it's never too late to do "the work."

October 24, 2017

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4:3

... The Work is a beautiful film, all the more so because of its willingness to step into the fear and find a raw, unremitting beauty in the witnessing of healing.

December 15, 2017

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Hammer to Nail

There is serious work being done in The Work, and much good comes of it.

February 06, 2018

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AV Club

More than just an advertisement for the process depicted, The Work carries a profound, implicit point about a culture that encourages men to bottle up what they feel, then condemns them after those emotions express themselves in violent, destructive ways.

December 14, 2017

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