Unrest 4

Kudoboard for Jen

https://www.kudoboard.com/boards/EMiGgXpg#view

The Independent Critic

Brea was an active Harvard PhD student getting ready to marry the love of her life when her body started failing her. Hoping to shed light on her strange symptoms, Brea began filming her experiences as her dark experiences finally get a name - myalgic encephalomyelitis, or M.E.

Jennifer, with her new husband Omar by her side, begins to search for answers in this remarkably transparent, achingly vulnerable feature doc that also captured the Best Documentary Feature prize at the Nashville Film Festival and several other prizes along its festival journey. Often confined to her bed, she begins connecting to others via social media and Youtube and discovers a world of remarkably wonderful and intelligent people impacted by M.E. and whose stories fill the screen with an almost overwhelming sadness that is transcended only by the amount of love that one feels went into this remarkable doc.

The truth of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome/ME is that it is a multi-system disease causing dysfunction of the neurological, immune, endocrine, and energy metabolism systems. It often follows an infection, in Brea's case it followed a severe sickness that included a fever of 114 degrees, and leaves 75% of those affected by it unable to work and 25% homebound or bed-ridden.

In other words, there's a science to it and it ain't pretty.

While the relationship between Jennifer and Omar is breathtaking, this journey itself is nothing short of heartbreaking and not resolved in nice and pretty ways by film's end.

One of 2017's most emotionally honest and intellectually satisfying docs.

Indiewire

http://www.indiewire.com/2017/12/unrest-interview-jennifer-brea-documentary-1201898113/amp/?__twitter_impression=true

The Irish Times

The AIM Review

https://theaimn.com/unrest-review-intimate-journey/

Natasha Lipman for BBC on Jen and Unrest

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/amp/stories-41888146

Finding Ourselves In Others by MEAction

http://www.meaction.net/2017/11/01/finding-ourselves-in-others-a-tale-of-watching-unrest/?utm_content=buffer98d6e&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer

Express Review and Description (Some Good Parts)

https://www.express.co.uk/life-style/health/870117/what-is-chronic-fatigue-syndrome-symptoms-treatment-me-unrest/amp