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  • 2021
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  • YouTube
  • 1 h 30 m
  • 2021
  • Not Rated
  • YouTube
  • 1 h 30 m
Life in a Day 2020

Summary On July 25th, 2020, people all over the world filmed their lives and shared their stories to be part of a documentary film. When all the submissions were tallied, the filmmakers had received over 300,000 videos from 192 countries. The result is a film about love, death, heartbreak, and hope that looks beyond geography and circumstance t...

Directed By: Kevin Macdonald, Howard Hong, Danica Jensen, Despina Mirou, Mário Filipe Neves, Ferhat Sendag

  • 2021
  • Not Rated
  • YouTube
  • 1 h 30 m
  • 2021
  • Not Rated
  • YouTube
  • 1 h 30 m

Life in a Day 2020

Metascore Mixed or Average Based on 7 Critic Reviews
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Summary On July 25th, 2020, people all over the world filmed their lives and shared their stories to be part of a documentary film. When all the submissions were tallied, the filmmakers had received over 300,000 videos from 192 countries. The result is a film about love, death, heartbreak, and hope that looks beyond geography and circumstance t...

Directed By: Kevin Macdonald, Howard Hong, Danica Jensen, Despina Mirou, Mário Filipe Neves, Ferhat Sendag

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Metascore
Mixed or Average Based on 7 Critic Reviews
54
29% Positive
2 Reviews
57% Mixed
4 Reviews
14% Negative
1 Review

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Metascore
Mixed or Average Based on 7 Critic Reviews
54
29% Positive
2 Reviews
57% Mixed
4 Reviews
14% Negative
1 Review

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75
Feb 25, 2021
There are so many rich, colorful scenes that it’s a worthy watch just as an ethnographic record of our planet in a moment of time.
By G. Allen Johnson FULL REVIEW
75
Feb 11, 2021
Life in a Day 2020 is an affirmation of life, of the simple joys experienced by citizens of the planet over the course of a single day. We’d never have met any of them without this film, and we’re grateful for the opportunity to get to know them a little bit.
By Richard Roeper FULL REVIEW
60
Feb 11, 2021
Macdonald and his team pull out enough affecting stories to hold your interest, whose scopes range from sweeping to intimate.
By Robbie Collin FULL REVIEW
60
Feb 11, 2021
Even as the concept of crowdsourcing isn’t as novel as it was at the time of the film’s predecessor and the 90-minute running time can feel unnecessarily expansive given the repetition of those pandemic-related sequences, “Life in a Day 2020” nevertheless serves as a telling time capsule. The world has never felt so compact.
By Michael Rechtshaffen FULL REVIEW
50
Feb 11, 2021
The material may be slicker but the novelty of the format has faded.
By Allan Hunter FULL REVIEW
40
Feb 11, 2021
Life in a Day 2020 is quick to fall back on tidy montage methods — grouped shots of babies being born, skydivers jumping from planes, believers grouped in prayer, mourners in cemeteries — that rather strenuously force a sense of global communion, rather than seeking and stressing life’s more diverse and disorienting juxtapositions.
By Guy Lodge FULL REVIEW
33
Feb 11, 2021
You’re not likely to find a more jarring — and ultimately exhausting — collision of high pretension and low execution at Sundance this year than the crowdsourced YouTube doc Life in a Day 2020.
By Christian Blauvelt FULL REVIEW

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Production Company Flying Object, RSA Films
Release Date Feb 6, 2021
Duration 1 h 30 m
Rating Not Rated
Genres
Tagline The Story of a Single Day on Earth.
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Awards

Royal Television Society, UK
• 2 Nominations
Television Business International Content Innovation Awards
• 1 Nomination

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