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The Work
Description
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.
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.
Actors:
Chris,
Charles,
Brian,
Dark Cloud,
Vegas,
Kiki
Chris
Charles
Brian
Dark Cloud
Vegas
Kiki
Genre:
Documentary
Director:
Jairus McLeary, Gethin Aldous
Country:
United States
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December 23, 2017
Incredibly human and filled with a wisdom that only comes from great suffering.
October 26, 2017
Opening an aperture into a process so ego-stripping that it feels unseemly to witness, "The Work" is enlightening yet also punishing.
December 15, 2017
... 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.
September 07, 2017
Some context is lost in favour of a lot of weeping and wailing, but this remains an eye-opening experience.
December 28, 2017
Sceptics may enter Folsom with suspicion, but these are extraordinary scenes, so shocking and dynamic they might be mistaken for exorcisms.
March 21, 2018
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.
December 14, 2017
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.
October 25, 2017
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.
December 28, 2017
Never has a 4,000-year-old aphorism seemed more devastatingly of the moment. But the results are inspiring: it seems The Work works.
October 25, 2017
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.
February 06, 2018
There is serious work being done in The Work, and much good comes of it.
October 24, 2017
The movie valuably demonstrates how, for some, when it comes to rehabilitation, it's never too late to do "the work."