The Survival of Kindness

It won’t be everyone’s cup of historical parable, but there’s an elemental purity to this replanted Dutchman’s work.

It’s richly meditative and burrows in deep.

There is nothing for me to learn from "The Survival of Kindness."

The Survival of Kindness is an allegory done right.

First-time actress Mwajemi Hussein is riveting as an escapee trekking across a plague-ravaged wilderness in a magnificently parched, wordless parable.

An epic adventure in the guise of an arthouse flick, The Survival of Kindness makes up in visual power and moral clarity what it lacks in subtext.

Rolf de Heer’s The Survival of Kindness is a minimalist marvel and a highly absorbing experience, despite its struggles to say anything fresh.

The Survival of Kindness pushes narrative boundaries, and the pitiless nature of the visual and psychological journey is punishing.

Not merely because the title says so, Hussein's is a face of kindness, giving the movie a warm and lively focal point amid its rampant suffering and atrocities.

As the film follows a resourceful Aboriginal woman through a dark journey in which plague and racism play determining roles, it feels like the concept has overwhelmed the narrative, so that the film’s initial power is weakened by an amorphous obviousness.