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10/21/08
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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.
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... [More]
Director: Irena Salina
Reviews for Flow: For Love of Water
(Director) Salina makes Flow function as a wake-up call to those who take such issues as an international given.
09/06/08
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.
11/06/08
You'll never want to buy a bottle of water again after seeing this essential documentary about the blatant theft being committed by companies like Nestle that have helped make water the third biggest global industry behind electricity and oil.
09/21/08
Educational polemical documentary.
12/01/08
The inconvenient truth at the center of Flow: For Love of Water is that while the oil crisis is intensely debated and documented, disasters involving an even more essential fluid go perilously unnoticed.
09/07/08
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.
12/02/08
An enlightening documentary about the global war over water and the progress being made by activists against multinational corporations and their campaign of privatization.
09/13/08
Salina's film is a very effective primer of an underreported problem. If nothing else, it made me thirsty.
09/19/08
Go with the Flow and you'll discover not only that a billion of the world's people are without fresh water but that even areas within the U.S. face scarcities.
09/03/08
One thing is for sure: after you watch Flow, you'll think about that next glass of water you drink or that next shower or bath you have and not take either of them for granted.
10/17/08
It is required watching, because only concerted citizen action can stop the trend.
10/18/08
Irena Salina's astonishingly wide-ranging film is less depressing than galvanizing, an informed and heartfelt examination of the tug of war between public health and private interests.
09/12/08
Top CriticThe 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.
11/13/08
Flow makes the case against the privatization of water, which is happening in gazillions of impoverished communities around the world, not to mention North American backyards.
10/17/08
Top CriticThe documentary shows in no uncertain terms that if we continue to abuse our water supply, Earth will become uninhabitable and humankind will become extinct.
06/27/09
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.
11/07/08
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.
10/23/08
Flow is the kind of terrifying, impending-apocalypse documentary none of us wants to watch but all of us probably should; it isn’t the most enjoyable experience you’ll have at the movies this year, but I wouldn’t doubt if it’s one of the most eye-opening.
10/17/08
Along with this sobering information, filmmaker Irena Salina's docu includes a distinct note of optimism that should help the film flow smoothly through the festival pipeline before eventually settling on DVD.
03/10/08
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