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Patience (After Sebald) (2011)

Patience (After Sebald) poster
Directed by
Grant Gee
Genre
documentary film
Country
United Kingdom
Runtime
1h 24m
Rated
12A
Rating
6.4 of 10 from 5 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

This film follows writer W. G. Sebald's journey on foot through the East Anglian landscape. It weaves together his literary reflections with the visual experience of the region and its history.

contemplativemeditativepoeticessayisticslow-pacedmelancholicatmosphericpersonal

What happens

Winfried Georg Sebald (18 May 1944 – 14 December 2001), known as W. G. Sebald or (as he preferred) Max Sebald, was a German writer and academic. At the time of his death at the age of 57, he was according to The New Yorker "widely recognized for his extraordinary contribution to world literature." (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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