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Negative Capability (2025)
Director: Jesse Zigelstein
Cast: Jonas Chernick, Sara Canning, Athena Karkanis, Mimi Kuzyk
Runtime92 min
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A stalled novelist struggles through a painful divorce and with other vicissitudes of middle age while searching for sexual fulfillment, emotional consolation, and the elusive possibility of renewal.
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Negative Capability (2025), directed by Jesse Zigelstein, is a critically acclaimed drama that follows a stalled novelist navigating the difficulties of middle age, including a painful divorce and the search for personal and sexual fulfillment. While audience reception has not been widely reported, the film's exploration of complex emotional themes has resonated with many critics.
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Fans of thought-provoking character studies will appreciate director Jesse Zigelstein's 2025 drama Negative Capability, featuring standout performances from Jonas Chernick, Sara Canning, and Athena Karkanis as a stalled novelist navigating a painful divorce and the challenges of middle age.
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Negative capability is the capacity of artists to pursue ideals of beauty, perfection and sublimity even when it leads them into intellectual confusion and uncertainty, as opposed to a preference for philosophical certainty over artistic beauty. The term, first used by John Keats in 1817, has been subsequently used by poets, philosophers and literary theorists to describe the ability to perceive and recognize truths beyond the reach of what Keats called "consecutive reasoning".
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