Synopsis
Nothing spreads like fear
As an epidemic of a lethal airborne virus - that kills within days - rapidly grows, the worldwide medical community races to find a cure and control the panic that spreads faster than the virus itself.
2011 Directed by Steven Soderbergh
As an epidemic of a lethal airborne virus - that kills within days - rapidly grows, the worldwide medical community races to find a cure and control the panic that spreads faster than the virus itself.
Marion Cotillard Matt Damon Laurence Fishburne Jude Law Kate Winslet Jennifer Ehle Gwyneth Paltrow Bryan Cranston Elliott Gould Ng Chin Han John Hawkes Anna Jacoby-Heron Sanaa Lathan Demetri Martin Armin Rohde Enrico Colantoni Larry Clarke Monique Gabriela Curnen Daria Strokous Rick Uecker Jamie Newell Griffin Kane Rebecca Spence Yoshiaki Kobayashi Teri McEvoy Sue Redman Teri Campbell Stef Tovar Mary Jo Faraci Show All…
Participant Media Imagenation Abu Dhabi FZ Double Feature Films Regency Enterprises Warner Bros. Pictures
全境擴散, Tartunta, 传染病, Contágio, 컨테이젼, Contagio
weirdly i think this is the soderbergh i’ve watched the most? it’s like competence porn. and yes i did watch this because of coronavirus but so is everyone.
Never expected Matt Damon's daughter to pick U2 for her prom slow dance song. What a twist.
if theres ever going to be a movie about coronavirus then steven soderbergh can sue them for plagitarism, because they stole his idea
I went to see this movie with a guy I had a crush on in high school who was two grades older than me and I wanted it to be a date so bad. He scheduled group hangs both immediately before and after the movie 🥰 I think he works at a bank now. I would also see This Is The End with him a few years later when he came back from college and when I went to leave he told me he had “Cali kush” to smoke and tried to kiss me. Anyway. I don’t remember this movie as being particularly good or bad. I do remember Demetri Martin is in it. Just wanted to put this memory somewhere.
The closest thing to ‘life imitating art imitating life’ we are likely to ever see.
I guess it's not surprising that this would feel more brutal and terrifying than ever, but it's still a triumph of editing and in-camera film techniques. The woozy focal lengths that communicate feverish brains combined with those insert shots of hands on public transport poles or faces smeared with cold sweat are so paranoia-inducing. The hard cutting of the film only makes it all so much worse; the smash cut from Winslet weakly trying to hand her coat to another dying patient to her corpse sealed in plastic and being placed in a mass grave is among the most singularly unpleasant, profoundly unnerving moments in cinema history. Soderbergh's cold precision as a filmmaker, and Martinez's metronomic score, epitomizes the steady progress of the human response, but at every turn it's emphasized how impossible it is for humanity to get ahead of a disease. At the moment it certainly feels like the best horror film of the last decade.
Rotten Tomatoes: 85%
Metacritic Metascore: 70
IMDB: 6.7
86/100
Release Date: 09 September 2011
Distributor: Warner Bros
Budget: $60M
Worldwide Gross: $137M
Total Film Awards: 2
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Dave: "My wife makes me take off my clothes in the garage. Then she leaves out a bucket of warm water and some soap. And then she douses everything in hand sanitizer after I leave. I mean, she's overreacting, right?"
SYNOPSIS: Healthcare professionals, government officials and everyday people find themselves in the midst of a pandemic as the CDC works to find a cure.
Nine years later, as the Coronavirus disease is running rampant, my mind often reflects on this film and when I saw it in theaters nearly…
This movie started off very strongly but depended on montages too much and needed to be longer. It was very weird watching this as we basically lived through the plot of this film.
It turns out the first great film about coronavirus came out in 2011. I admire what is such a heavy subject matter is treated with a remarkable amount of restraint by Soderbergh. His all star cast seem very humdrum in their humanity and their responses to a seemingly unbeatable virus. Matt Damon and Larry Fishburne handle this sense of just carrying on very well. Kate Winslet, too, shows no real sense of melodrama or over the top acting as she catches the disease she is fighting-just perfect despair. Like all Soderbergh films there's a simplicity in the cinematography and a great sense of the commonplace, everyday in the look and feel of towns and cities descending into chaos. Jude Law's…
Los primeros y últimos minutos dan miedo. Capaz no fue del todo acertado hacer la historia a partir de todos los puntos de vista (el de Marion Cotillard servía para darnos posible información de dónde nació el virus y nada más) y Matt Damon inmune es lo mejor de la película.
A very curious film. This is crafted with that multiple storyline structure which I tend to be on and off about but here it was different. It was never jarring or difficult to follow like many films that use this same method and for that I definitely applaud.
All around this film is just great, compelling content that thoroughly entertained me from beginning to end, not holding back on what it was to show and of course is now infamous for being scarily accurate to what is happening right now.
When you spend an entire movie screaming “WHERE ARE THEIR MASKS” into the abyss.
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