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Baraka (1994)

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Reviews Counted:17

Fresh:15

Rotten:2

Average Rating:7/10

Runtime: 1 hr 44 mins

Genre: Education/General Interest

Synopsis: From Nepal to Kenya, from Australia to Brazil, people try to cope with the changes that have altered their landscape, crowding them together and speeding up daily life. The film shows us these... From Nepal to Kenya, from Australia to Brazil, people try to cope with the changes that have altered their landscape, crowding them together and speeding up daily life. The film shows us these alienated people, but also images of traditions--whirling dervishes and Tibetan monks--that offer different, peaceful ways of existence. Shot in 70mm in 24 countries, this awesome musical and visual montage in the tradition of KOYAANISQATSI expresses the global existence of nature and man in the broadest sensory terms. [More]

Director: Ron Fricke

Director: Ron Fricke
Composer: Philip Glass

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Jan 25, 2000

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Critics and audiences have struggled to find the right words to describe the effect Baraka has on them for 16 years; but it seems appropriate to be speechless after seeing this wordless masterpiece of cinema.

Full Review Source: Urban Cinefile | comment Comment
04/02/09
Andrew L. Urban
Andrew L. Urban
Urban Cinefile
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01/26/06
Time Out

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10/07/05
Michael Szymanski
Michael Szymanski
International Press Academy

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08/02/05
Emanuel Levy
Emanuel Levy
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12/16/03
Ryan Cracknell
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05/20/03
Stephen Holden
Stephen Holden
New York Times
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images [and juxtapositions] in BARAKA . . provoke speculation about our place in the cosmos

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04/05/03
Andrea Chase
Andrea Chase
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Full Review Source: St. Louis Post-Dispatch | comment Comment
02/07/03
St. Louis Post-Dispatch

[It] begins like a National Geographic tour....a vacation from dialogue and narrative, traveling strictly on imagery... [but]Baraka gets old before the 93 minutes are up.

Full Review Source: Metro Times (Detroit, MI) | comment Comment
01/13/03
Anita Schmaltz
Anita Schmaltz
Metro Times (Detroit, MI)

The form is ravishing, though the content suffers by comparison.

Full Review Source: Chicago Tribune | comment Comment
01/09/03
Patrick Z. McGavin
Patrick Z. McGavin
Chicago Tribune
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Baraka's major strength is its realization that life happens all over the world and not just in America.

Full Review Source: Combustible Celluloid | comment Comment
08/30/02
Jeffrey M. Anderson
Jeffrey M. Anderson
Combustible Celluloid

This is a film that gazes with such awe at the mystery of life on earth that it seems almost childlike and yet does it in a way so purely cinematic that it can only come from the hands of a wizened master.

Full Review Source: Filmcritic.com | comment Comment
08/15/02
Kevin Smokler
Kevin Smokler
Filmcritic.com

will appeal greatly to any children of the sixties ... who believe in the common unity of mankind and how we all seek the same universal source'

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08/11/02
John A. Nesbit
John A. Nesbit
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08/08/02
Philip Martin
Philip Martin
Arkansas Democrat-Gazette

Extraordinary non-narrative film that enables us to see with our eyes and feel in our flesh that the healing of self and the healing of the planet and inextricably linked.

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03/05/02
Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat
Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat
Spirituality and Practice

Sweeping, jarring and mesmerizing -- not to mention mind-blowing, if I may indulge a '60s phrase.

Full Review Source: Deseret News, Salt Lake City | comment Comment
01/01/00
Chris Hicks
Chris Hicks
Deseret News, Salt Lake City

Nothing in this epic visual poem is less than extraordinary.

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Hal Hinson
Hal Hinson
Washington Post
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Pamela Bruce
Pamela Bruce
Austin Chronicle

It is claimed that the great age of travel is dead - that there are no longer amazing, exotic, beautiful and fearsome places for the traveler to discover. A movie like Baraka gives hope.

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01/01/00
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