Samsara

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Directed by Ron Fricke

Plot: Filmed over a period of five years in twenty-five countries on five continents, and shot on 70mm film, Samsara transports us to the varied worlds of sacred grounds, disaster zones, industrial complexes, and natural wonders.

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[steve9872]

I saw this tonight. Its a mish-mash of images of people and places all over the world. A lot of the images were familiar to me as I watch the various Discovery channels.

A number of people walked out of this. I expect because there's no story to it. I was tempted to leave also.

[McG]

Apologies if a thread exists but couldn't see it.
Saw this in half full cinema at Braehead. Surprised only 2 walk outs.
I must admit I was very disappointed with film. Visually some of it was stunning but very disjoint. I thought the theme was to be relgions over the world but didn't see a great deal of that. I would have liked to have country names displayed as I would have liked to have known where they were filmed.
Very glad I didn't p*y!
Marks 1.5/10.

Thanks to mod for merging with thread started by steve9872 at almost the same time!

[elski]

I found the first half really frustrating, all those shots of beautiful places with no explanation of where they were, what the people doing and why. Then by the time they hit the cities & factory stuff much more recognizable features and I let it wash over me.
It reminded me of The Tree Of Life for the random beautiful shots and made me want to see that again, at least that had a narrative of sorts!

[alythonian]

This was visually beautiful (in the large part) to watch and the music was mesmerising.

Quite a few walkouts in a 3/4 empty Dunfermline Odeon tonight.

OH would agree with McG, he wanted banners to say where it was as well.

Quite a lot of south east Asia, China and the Philipinnes with quite a lot of USA too. Some of the African scenes were fascinating but I could only place Ghana (the coffins) and Namibia (the skeleton coast/red desert).
Some of the religious sites were interesting - was that cathedral Nimes in France? I didn't think it was any in the UK. The Isreal/Palestinian border scenes were well done. They seemed to have omitted South America and Australasia but I may have just missed them?

I enjoyed 1n hour and a half of sitting still and watching without needing to listen. Quite emotive.

[tsoiboy]

Saw this tonight at O2 Greenwich thanks to Shazi.

Beautiful shots and evocative music to go along but no real thread to join the shots together so seemed a bit disjointed. Due to this it would have worked better as a 45 min film and maybe 1 hr at a stretch but 1.5 hrs was just way too long. Even my attention span was waning and I was quite glad when it ended.

My favourite moment was seeing the Hajj in Mecca, Saudi Arabia. Truly stunning.

4/10 as a film. 10/10 for Photography.

[Jayman]

Well, this sounds a helluva lot like BARAKA.

[elski]

Well, this sounds a helluva lot like BARAKA.

same director, so has he just regurgitated the same shots with some new bits? although quite a lot of new with Dubai etc.

[McG]

Well, this sounds a helluva lot like BARAKA.

Certainly reads almost exactly the same as Samsara!

[steve9872]

Its located in a lot of the same places only more recent.