Review: ‘Eternity Never Surrendered’
Eternity Never Surrendered (Mexico, 93 min.) Dir. Daniela Rea Gómez Programme: Made in Mexico (International Premiere) This review means no disrespect to the dead, but spare yourself 73 minutes of intolerable pain and skip this documentary. Eternity Never Surrendered, which inexplicably took the #1 spot in the Hot Docs Audience Award rankings on the fourth day of the festival, is a tedious exercise in pain and misery. The doc has its heart in the right place, but it’s one of several examples at the fest this year for the argument that subject matter alone cannot carry a film. This