Rotten Tomatoes
Submit search Movies Tv shows RT App News Showtimes

Double Freedom

Play trailer Poster for Double Freedom 2026 1h 40m Drama Play Trailer Watchlist
Watchlist Tomatometer Popcornmeter
100% Tomatometer 11 Reviews Popcornmeter 0 Ratings
Misael works alone with his axe, cutting down trees in the woods. An unexpected responsibility upends his life, and the logic of his days fades away in a nature where human reason holds no meaning.

Critics Reviews

View More
Jordan Mintzer The Hollywood Reporter May 20
Double Freedom posits that life is best lived on your own terms, with few concessions and compromises. This is, of course, the formula Alonso applies to his cinema as well. Go to Full Review
Vadim Rizov IndieWire May 18
A-
Arriving at a moment when the pope has called for films to be more attentive to D.W. Griffith’s oft-cited “beauty of the moving wind in the trees,” this textbook piece of slow cinema is precisely on schedule. Go to Full Review
Beatrice Loayza Variety May 18
A degree of levity is achieved by this featherlight absurdity, which adds, if not hopefulness, at least humanity to the bleakness of the socioeconomic conditions so naturalistically built out. Go to Full Review
David Cuevas Next Best Picture 5d
8/10
Leaving room for ambiguity in his final act, "Double Freedom" offers a hopeful, if inconclusive, finale that trusts its characters to find inner peace amid a turbulent, unpredictable world. Go to Full Review
Hector A. Gonzalez InSession Film 5d
B+
La Libertad Doble recognizes the persistence of human connection and the possibility of adapting without surrendering oneself. Go to Full Review
Padaí Ó Maolchalann In Review Online May 24
As landmark, statement-making movies go, Double Freedom could also hardly be less fitting, yet... In an appropriately minor way, this is a major movie. Go to Full Review
Read all reviews

Movie Info

Synopsis Misael works alone with his axe, cutting down trees in the woods. An unexpected responsibility upends his life, and the logic of his days fades away in a nature where human reason holds no meaning.
Director
Lisandro Alonso
Producer
Fernando Bascuñán, Augusto Matte, Lisandro Alonso
Screenwriter
Lisandro Alonso
Production Co
Planta, Deptford, 4L
Genre
Drama
Original Language
Spanish
Runtime
1h 40m