This beautiful, highly stylized biographical film tells the story of Olympic gold medal winner Haile Gebrsellasie.
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01/01/00
Endurance (1999)
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Reviews Counted:24
Fresh:13
Rotten:11
Average Rating:5.9/10
Synopsis: The inspirational story of Haile Gebrselassie, Gold Medal winner at the 1996 Olympics in Atlanta. The film documents his life, from the farms of Ethiopia to international glory. A stirring and... [More]
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The film leaves so many questions not only unanswered but unasked. Why does Gebrselassie run? What was it like for him to disobey his father and leave home to pursue his dream?
01/01/00
Without looking away from the unhappy circumstances in which many Africans live today, it contrasts the community's material poverty with its spiritual richness,and suggests this may be one of the great lessons that Africa has to teach the West.
10/04/03
He didn't come from a background of training, coaching and determination, but from the rural hills, where we see him running to school, running to the water well, running to the fields, always with that stoic thrumming of his breath.
01/01/00
Top CriticInteresting on many levels, but doesn't quite show the passion of the human body like Leni Riefenstahl's Olympia or the thrill of the race like the recent Children of Heaven.
05/26/06
A movie which makes up for its relative deficiency of conflict and setbacks by its bold, stirring meditation on the lives of people in one of the world's poorest countries.
01/01/00
We leave the film having learned very little, other than that this exceptional long distance runner is certainly quite an athlete.
02/14/01
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02/17/05
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01/01/00
Top CriticAs rich in anthropological detail as it is in human interest.
01/01/00
This sweetly simple and honest documentary, shouldn't be confused with a feature film
01/01/00
I found the film engrossing, missing only the opportunity to spend more time with the mechanics of distance training and, perhaps through that, to learn how Gebrselassie became the world's best at what he does.
07/21/05
Top CriticIf there were a cinematic dullness scale, this movie would reside just one notch ahead of the rating for a blank screen.
01/01/00
It has neither the compelling authenticity of cinema verite nor the dramatic punch of artful fiction.
01/09/02
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10/22/01
Top CriticIts mixture of biographical hype and social studies quickly curdles.
01/01/00
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08/07/08
A solid dramatized biography of Gebrselassie, and much of it features the somewhat introspective runner with a sunny smile.
01/01/00
Top CriticIt's not suspense the film is after. It's something simultaneously more deliberate and more confounding.
01/01/00
The Olympics sequences are almost completely devoid of drama, and the script never quite makes it clear exactly why he's regarded as being such a special athlete.
04/03/02
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