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Flow: For Love of Water (2008)

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Reviews Counted: 45

Fresh: 36

Rotten:9

Average Rating: 6.6/10

Consensus: Flow is an informative, disturbing and enthralling film that highlights a criminally underreported problem.

Rated: Not Rated

Runtime: 1 hr 33 mins

Genre: Education/General Interest

Theatrical Release:Sep 12, 2008 Limited

Synopsis: Irena Salina’s cautionary documentary is determined to stir things up. Water, the quintessence of life, sustains every creature on Earth. The time has come when we can no longer take this precious... Irena Salina’s cautionary documentary is determined to stir things up. Water, the quintessence of life, sustains every creature on Earth. The time has come when we can no longer take this precious resource for granted. Unless we effect global change, impoverished nations could be wiped from the planet. Roused by a thirst for survival, people around the world are fighting for their birthright. Under the cover of darkness, African plumbers secretly reconnect shantytown water pipes to ensure a community’s survival. A California scientist exposes toxic public water supplies. A “water guru” promotes community-based initiatives to provide water throughout India. The CEO of a billion-dollar water company argues for privatization as the wave of the future. A Canadian author pops the cork on bottled water, unveiling the disturbing realities that drive profits in the global water business. Flow: For Love of Water is an inspired, yet disturbingly provocative, wake-up call. The future of our planet is drying up rapidly. Focusing on pollution, human rights, politics, and corruption, filmmaker Salina constructs an exceptionally articulate profile of the precarious relationship uniting human beings and water. While each community’s challenges are unique, the message is universal--the time to turn the tide is now. --© Sundance Film Festival [More]

Director: Irena Salina

Director: Irena Salina
Studio: New Day Films

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The documentary shows in no uncertain terms that if we continue to abuse our water supply, Earth will become uninhabitable and humankind will become extinct.

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06/27/09
Jennifer Merin
About.com
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Full Review Source: Boston Phoenix | comment Comment
04/23/09
Peter Keough
Boston Phoenix

The film makes a convincing case for better oversight of public water systems, water conservation, better water treatment systems and better control of industrial pollution which contaminates water supplies.

Full Review Source: Laramie Movie Scope | comment Comment
02/05/09
Robert Roten
Laramie Movie Scope

Before ending on a somewhat hopeful note of defiant activism, Irena Salina’s globe-hopping documentary is a terrifying downer.

Full Review Source: Kansas City Star | comment Comment
12/05/08
Robert W. Butler
Kansas City Star

Although meandering at times, Flow is still a serviceable documentary spouting daunting informational facts and figures about the freshwater supply threats and the perilous consequences that inevitably follow.

Full Review Source: Movie Eye | comment Comment
12/02/08
Frank Ochieng
Movie Eye

Educational polemical documentary.

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12/01/08
Dennis Schwartz
Ozus' World Movie Reviews

You may never buy bottled water again after this.

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11/28/08
MaryAnn Johanson
Flick Filosopher

Not all documentaries are solution-oriented, but this is.

Full Review Source: Charlotte Observer | comment Comment
11/14/08
Lawrence Toppman
Charlotte Observer

The film is filled mostly with talking-head interviews and very one-sided reporting. So it's lucky that these are subjects that are extremely topical right now, and are of interest as a result.

Full Review Source: Deseret News, Salt Lake City | comment Comment
11/13/08
Jeff Vice
Deseret News, Salt Lake City

Problems are addressed in a narrative progression that gets more horrendous and builds into utter despair, except for the final few words of activism and optimism.

Full Review Source: Seattle Times | comment Comment
11/07/08
Ted Fry
Seattle Times

The overarching theme here is that the Earth's freshwater supply is being contaminated, sucked dry and 'privatized' for the benefit of huge corporations that are establishing themselves as the heirs to the oil cartels.

Full Review Source: Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN) | comment Comment
11/07/08
John Beifuss
Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN)

Flow might be alarmist propaganda, but with an estimated 20 years left before California's water supply is used up, it might be time to respond to the alarm.

Full Review Source: Seattle Post-Intelligencer | comment Comment
11/06/08
Bill White
Seattle Post-Intelligencer

Channeling Soylent Green, Flow is fresh when it ties issues of supply, cost, quality, and extraction on 5 continents with the rise of giant water companies.

Full Review Source: Film-Forward.com | comment Comment
11/01/08
Nora Lee Mandel
Film-Forward.com

Your tap water might be making you sick. But your bottled water might be making you sicker, while also enabling the environmental rape of the American heartland and unconscionable extortion in the Third World.

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10/23/08
Jonathan Kiefer
Sacramento News & Review

The doomsday tone of the movie quickly becomes wearying, and after a certain point the information is simply repetitive, and thus loses much of its impact.

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10/23/08
Josh Bell
Las Vegas Weekly

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10/21/08
St. Louis Post-Dispatch

It is required watching, because only concerted citizen action can stop the trend.

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10/18/08
Jean Lowerison
San Diego Metropolitan

All of Salina's interviews and data tell a graphic story about corporate water piracy, the complicity of governments, the burden put on the poor and the scam of bottled water. But she can't quite jam it all in and still have a film that, well, flows.

Full Review Source: Variety | comment Comment
10/18/08
John Anderson
Variety
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As if we didn't have enough to worry about.

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10/18/08
Kenneth Turan
Los Angeles Times
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Yeah, we really don't have enough to worry about these days. So why not grab a Pellegrino and see "Flow," Irena Salina's documentary about the end of the world's water supply as we know it?

Full Review Source: Capital Times (Madison, WI) | comment Comment
10/17/08
Rob Thomas
Capital Times (Madison, WI)
 
 
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