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
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Combining images of 30 years of politics, music, self-expression and alternative living, it's a vibrant, if inevitably scattered, film that manages to tread the fine line between chronicling the festival and exploiting it. Full Review |
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3/4 |
An alternately rousing and repetitive 138-minute documentary spanning four decades of the Glastonbury Festival. Full Review |
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3.5/5 |
The sense of total immersion is breathlessly complete. Full Review |
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B+ |
... captures the open-air rock festival experience more completely than any previous film of its kind. Full Review |
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 2.5/4 |
... as muddy as Yasgur's farm back in the day. Full Review |
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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. Full Review |
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B+ |
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. Full Review |
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2/4 |
While the movie will clarify whether or not the fest is for you, you never feel like you're actually there. Full Review |
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2.5/4 |
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. Full Review |
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3/4 |
The portrait is spectacular and inclusive, if sometimes a bit overwhelming and confusing. Full Review |
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2/4 |
Overlong, unfocused, and shallow, it is less a film than a test of endurance. Full Review |
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3/4 |
A warm and witty, detailed look at this parallel universe. Full Review |
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3/4 |
Temple is able to convey a perceptive and substantive mood pertaining to the staying power of this weirdly nuanced outdoor finger-snapping function. Full Review |
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B |
The film is clearly an act of boosterism, and it makes a pretty good case for the Glastonbury cause. Full Review |
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3/4 |
Julien Temple's formless documentary Glastonbury aims to capture the festival's chaos and free-wheeling freakiness and accomplishes this goal. Full Review |
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4.5/5 |
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. Full Review |
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