Samsara (Blu-ray) PG-13
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- Rated: PG-13
- Run Time: 1 hours, 42 minutes
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: January 8, 2013
- Originally Released: 2011
- Label: MPI Home Video
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Directed by | Ron Fricke | |
Screenwriting by | Ron Fricke & Mark Magidson | |
Composition by | Michael Stearns, Lisa Gerrard & Marcello De Francisci | |
Director of Photography: | Ron Fricke |
Entertainment Reviews:
Rating: 3/5 --
Mesmerising, impressionistic movie in which time-lapse photography...is intended to ignite thoughts about the meaning of life, society, technology, God, ecology and robots.
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3AW
I can't fault the film on a technical level and I can appreciate the years of work that went into it. But it's manipulative and condescending, a series of striking visuals appropriated and arranged into a film that's not half as deep as it thinks it is.
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Eugene Weekly (OR)
Shot by Fricke in glorious 70mm at a variety of locations and speeds, SAMSARA comes with a dazzling visual beauty that demands to be seen on the big screen.
Sight and Sound
The accumulated images in this wordless documentary, shot in 25 countries around the world in awesome 70mm, are literally hypnotic.
Entertainment Weekly
4 stars out of 4 -- [A] film composed of powerful images, most magnificent, some shocking, all photographed with great care in the highest possible HD resolution...
Chicago Sun-Times
A spool of arresting, beautifully composed shots without narration or dialogue, SAMSARA is an invitation to watch closely and to suspend interpretation...
New York Times
3 stars out of 5 -- Jaw-dropping in colour and splendour...at its best you can genuinely feel some great wheel turning.
Total Film
Product Description:
Director and cinematographer Ron Fricke offers a striking glimpse into some of the world's most remarkable happenings in this visually spectacular documentary. Following in the same template as 1992's BARAKA (also directed by Fricke), SAMSARA is a study in the ways humanity works as a collective and as individuals, with the cycle of human existence providing the subtext for the parade of images (the title is a Tibetan word meaning "the wheel of life"). Combining scenes of destruction and rebirth, images of profound humanity and mechanized lifelessness, BARAKA includes remarkable images of people working together en masse, including Muslims visiting the holy city of Mecca, hundred of Chinese dancers performing a synchronized routine, and prisoners doing group exercises in a prison yard. Fricke filmed SAMSARA over a period of several years, shooting on 65mm film stock and transferring the footage to 4K high-definition video for post-production and exhibition. SAMSARA received its world premiere at the 2011 Toronto International Film Festival.
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- UPC: 030306183190
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