A magical documentary recounting the 35 tumultuous years of the Glastonbury Music Festival, this is an exhilarating experience.
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05/06/06
Glastonbury (2007)
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Reviews Counted:28
Fresh:22
Rotten:6
Average Rating:6.7/10
Consensus: Glastonbury is formless and scattershot, and successful in capturing the festival's raw, wild energy.
Theatrical Release:Feb 23, 2007 Limited
Synopsis: Glastonbury is now the best known, longest running and most pre-eminent music festival in the world. Fuelled by a staggering range of music, the movie will embrace the spirit, characters and... [More]
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Reviews for Glastonbury
For all the posers with light sticks and piercings, there are moments of Dada-esque beauty, not to mention some great music from Tinariwen, Bjork, David Bowie and the late, great Joe Strummer.
04/05/07
... captures the open-air rock festival experience more completely than any previous film of its kind.
04/09/07
The movie's 135 minutes [feels] long. But the length is a product of [director] Temple's desire to cram in as much as he can. Despite the festival's drawbacks, it's obvious Temple loves everything about it. Even Coldplay.
03/08/07
A frenetic cut-and-paste job that is free of voiceover, commentary or even titles to introduce interviewees. Such calculated vagueness works, and the lingering impression is of a messy and hedonistic free-for-all.
06/24/06
A Herculean task executed with wit, intelligence and unmistakable passion. The next best thing to being there.
05/06/06
An alternately rousing and repetitive 138-minute documentary spanning four decades of the Glastonbury Festival.
05/31/07
Temple is able to convey a perceptive and substantive mood pertaining to the staying power of this weirdly nuanced outdoor finger-snapping function.
02/25/07
Julien Temple's formless documentary Glastonbury aims to capture the festival's chaos and free-wheeling freakiness and accomplishes this goal.
02/23/07
Super-scintillating. We're fortunate to have a bright, bold documentary like Glastonbury to remind us how fun, weird and wonderful life can be.
02/18/07
Features some beautiful and epic performances that are enough, on their own, to entertain.
05/06/06
A warm and witty, detailed look at this parallel universe.
03/02/07
The film is clearly an act of boosterism, and it makes a pretty good case for the Glastonbury cause.
02/24/07
The overall soundtrack seamlessly patches together a sonic quilt of eclectic music that evokes a kind of timeless flow. It's not a Glastonbury of any particular vintage, but rather a continuum of experiences that have occurred on this sacred ground.
02/22/07
What [Temple] does...is immerse his audience in the spirit of the festival with ingenious editing that shows the Glastonbury Festival as nothing short of a geographically bound society that just happens to exist for a few days a year.
03/25/07
The sense of total immersion is breathlessly complete.
04/13/07
The portrait is spectacular and inclusive, if sometimes a bit overwhelming and confusing.
03/08/07
Top CriticThe festival’s audience is as integral a part of the proceedings as the music, and we get a rich portrait of the wide variety of pranksters, iconoclasts, and freaks that descend upon the West Country of England in the hundreds of thousands every year.
02/04/06
This is entertaining stuff, though and there's a big laugh when a hippy juggling flaming torches sets fire to himself.
05/06/06
Compulsive viewing, but it feels far too long.
03/01/06
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