1/16/18: Calling it a "captivating film essay", the Netherland's leading national newspaper, NRC Handelsbad, features The Image You Missed alongside Apichatpong Weerathesakul in its list of "film tips for IFFR" that "might be an excellent time spent"...
1/25/18: The Criterion Collection singles out The Image You Missed in this post on IFFR.
1/30/18: The Irish Times and Joe.ie include The Image You Missed on their lists of must-see films at the Dublin International Film Festival. The film also gets a mention in Screen Daily, Film Ireland and Hot Press.
2/2/18: Fred.fm interviews Donal Foreman about The Image You Missedi in Rotterdam.
2/3/18: Acclaimed video essayist Kevin B. Lee, Film Comment critic Jordan Cronk and critic-programmer Carlos Nogueira all include The Image You Missed in their list of favourite films seen at International Film Festival Rotterdam.
2/6/18: The Hollywood Reporter reviews The Image You Missed, calling it "engaging and quietly rewarding".
2/10/18: In the RTÉ Guide magazine, Michael Doherty includes the film in a list of six titles "well-worth catching" at the Dublin Film Festival. He writes: "His excellent debut feature, Out of Here, made a mark; now writer-director Donal Foreman delivers a moving, personal documentary about his father, the documentary-maker, Arthur MacCaig."
2/13/18: At DesistFilm, Chloé-Galibert-Laîné calls the film "a meticulous and challenging comparison of two different ways of being a man, a citizen, and a filmmaker" and "a vibrant call for new fictions to be collectively written.”
2/18/18: Kiva Reardon in Filmmaker Magazine: "The question of what we’re really looking for when we partake in the act of watching ... was also brilliantly explored in The Image You Missed by Donal Foreman ..."
2/21/18: For Film Comment, Jordan Cronk calls the film"a moving and thoughtful first-person essay film."
2/25/18: In today's Irish Times, Donald Clarke includes "the latest from young visionary Donal Foreman" in his list of "the best films to see" at the Dublin International Film Festival.
2/27/18: Again in the Irish Times, Tara Brady calls the film a "wonderful Oedipal essay"...
2/27/18: Donal Foreman is interviewed on Irish national radio (RTÉ Radio 1's Arena) about The Image You Missed.
3/8/18: Síomha McQuinn reviews The Image You Missed for Film Ireland, calling it "poetic and poignant" and "a film full of vulnerability and bravery": "The Image You Missed is engaging and evocative in both form and content. MacCaig’s footage is given new life and perspective under Foreman’s creative influence and his own footage provides a powerful contrast, as a personal archive of youthful experimentation and also as the profound reflections of a seasoned filmmaker."
3/21/18: In his program notes for BAFICI, Sight & Sound's Kieran Corliss writes: "Irish director Donal Foreman’s exquisite, elliptical autobiographical essay film stages a profoundly moving encounter with his late estranged father ... How to reconcile the personal and the political, how we connect (or fail to) with images and with each other through images lie at the heart of this absolute must-see, one of the most charged and beautifully weighted essay films of recent times."
3/22/18: Niall Murphy interviews Donal Foreman for Cinéireann magazine (page 44).
3/27/18: Ronan Doyle reviews the film for Scannain.com: "A fascinating formal experiment, anchored by Foreman’s astute editorial instincts ... Foreman has not so much crafted a work of collaborative catharsis as plumbed his own unique circumstance to explore deep, delicate questions of national socio-political soul-searching. In the dialogue he creates between these images of identity, of ideology, and of Irishness, Foreman has once again conflated the personal and the political, the cinematic and the social, the then and the now in a story that resonates far beyond its apparently insular primaries. In seeking to locate an individual through his art, Foreman has demonstrated above all his own profound prowess as a maker and interrogator of images."
3/31/18: The Image You Missed took away two prizes at Cinéma du Réel in Paris: the Prize for Best Original Music and a Special Mention in the French Competition.
Announcing the Prize for Best Original Music, Cosmic Neman described it as “a radical film where the music reminds of the use of sound in the French New Wave cinema. The music takes us by surprise when we don’t expect, through a subtle mix of electronic sounds and wind instruments: for example, by choosing jazz melodies, where the flute and saxophone accompany scenes of IRA guerillas, we are far from the cliché and pathos of war music. Here, music introduces an astonishing counterpoint through its freedom of expression. Bravo!”
Announcing the Special Mention in the French Competition, jurors Aurore Auguste, Nico Marzano and Athiná-Rachél Tsangári praised the film "for the powerful way in which [it] connects the personal and the political, negotiating a space for a reflection on memory, family and self-determination."
4/10/18: BAFICI programmer Álvaro Arobar names The Image You Missed as one of his seven "essential films" at this year's festival.
4/14/18: Argentinian film critic Diego Lerer gives the film 8/10, describing it as "a kind of essay that opens up a discussion about inheritance, not only personal but aesthetic and political."
4/19/18: In a review for Visión del Cine in Buenos Aires, Jessica Johanna calls the film "evocative and sensitive, a film that talks about identity in a way that's both vulnerable and brave at the same time."
4/21/18: The Image You Missed was awarded the Grand Prize of the Avant-Garde & Genre Competition at BAFICI !
4/22/18: The Criterion Daily highlights The Image You Missed in this overview of Art of the Real.
4/24/18: Imogen Sara Smyth writes for Film Comment: "For MacCaig and Foreman, as for El Said and his collaborators, the boundaries between the personal and the political are as blurry as those between cinema and reality.
4/24/18: In Portugal, Espalho Factos includesThe Image You Missed in its list of "movies you can't miss" at IndieLisboa 2018.
4/28/18: For his blog Con Los Ojos Abiertos, Jorge Garcia praises it as "a film that fuses with wisdom the personal and political".
4/29/18: Writing for Portugal's national daily newspaper Publico, Jorge Mourinha calls The Image You Missed an "impassioned essay" and a "great documentary".