The River and the Wall (Blu-ray)
It’s a rive before it’s a border
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Blu-ray Details
- Rated: Not Rated
- Run Time: 1 hours, 49 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region A
- Released: July 9, 2019
- Originally Released: 2019
- Label: Gravitas Ventures
Performers, Cast and Crew:
| Directed by | Ben Masters |
Entertainment Reviews:
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Rating: 4/5 --
Although, like the river, it's uneven in depth and sometimes meanders a bit too far, this is an extensively researched and intriguing documentary.
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Eye for Film
The River and the Wall displays such majesty that one understands how words fail the likable travelers. "Isn't nature neat?" one exclaims.
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Bowling Green Daily News
Rating: 3/5 --
Where The River and the Wall truly excels is in the photography of the picture. Every scene shot under the sky is breathtaking.
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San Antonio Current
Visually stunning and politically sharp.
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Hollywood Reporter
Masters' film takes a complex political problem and removes partisanship from the equation, relying a boots-on-the-ground vantage point to provide a fresh perspective.
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Cinematic Considerations
Rating: 5/5 --
A remarkable documentary that gives us hope that young people documenting the consequences of a border wall will make a difference.
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Spirituality and Practice
Rating: B+ --
A work of radical agitprop this is not. What it is, however, is a delicately handled exploration of the dangers that "the wall" will have on the American eco-system...
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The Film Experience
Product Description:
Five companions, including an ecologist, conservationist and river guide, attempt to travel more than 1,000 miles along the Texas border from El Paso to the Gulf of Mexico without modern modes of transportation. Their journey along the Rio Grande River highlights the land, wildlife, families and communities a potential border wall would impact. Directed by Ben Masters.
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