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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
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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. Full Review |
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C+ |
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 |
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3/4 |
Before ending on a somewhat hopeful note of defiant activism, Irena Salina’s globe-hopping documentary is a terrifying downer. Full Review |
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2.5/4 |
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 |
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B- |
Educational polemical documentary. Full Review |
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You may never buy bottled water again after this. Full Review |
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3.5/4 |
Not all documentaries are solution-oriented, but this is. Full Review |
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2.5/4 |
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 |
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3/4 |
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 |
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3/4 |
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 |
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B- |
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 |
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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 |
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3/5 |
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. Full Review |
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2.5/5 |
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. Full Review |
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3/4 |
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It is required watching, because only concerted citizen action can stop the trend. Full Review |
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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 |
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4/5 |
As if we didn't have enough to worry about. Full Review |
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3/4 |
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 |
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