Manufactured Landscapes (2007)
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Reviews Counted:57
Fresh:47
Rotten:10
Average Rating:7.3/10
Runtime: 90 mins
Genre: Dramas
Synopsis: From its stunning eight-minute opening shot to the remarkable documentation of China's Three Gorges Dam, Manufactured Landscapes is an impressive experience. That's partly due to the size and space... [More]
Director: Jennifer Baichwal
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Reviews for Manufactured Landscapes
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 2/5 |
There is nothing wrong with Baichwal's camerawork, with a fascinating opening eight-minute shot of it roaming across a Chinese factory floor, particularly stunning - but everything lacks depth. Full Review |
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8/10 |
Burtynsky's awe-inspiring work ultimately speaks for itself. Full Review |
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Each of Burtynsky's subjects is impressive in its scale, but terrifying in its ecological impact. Full Review |
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2.5/4 |
What the film does well is to make us part of the problem: After all we demand the lowest prices in everything we buy and that probably means it was made in China. Full Review |
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6/10 |
A film in search of a subject. Full Review |
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B+ |
Burtynsky avoids any political content to his work, but it's hard not to feel anxious and sad at the spectacle of the rapid industrialization and urbanization of the world's most populous nation. Full Review |
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3/5 |
My first question: What kind of nefarious events had to occur so that I could purchase the computer with which I write this review? Full Review |
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B+ |
Like Burtynsky's pictures, captures images that are at once awesome, humbling, and rather terrifying. Full Review |
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2.5/5 |
I got the streamlined version of a minimalist modern art piece, when what I wanted was an old-fashioned documentary. Full Review |
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3.5/4 |
Documentarian Jennifer Baichwal's film finds a way to comment on ecological and environmental destruction without bludgeoning audiences with heavy-handed messages. There is a mesmerizing quality to the film. Full Review |
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3/4 |
Burtynsky's photos are stunning (some of his images of dumps resemble Jackson Pollack's drip art), but what's most interesting about Landscapes is the tension between his work and the filmmaking. Full Review |
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3/4 |
Canadian fine art photographer Edward Burtynsky shoots the recycling dumps, superfactories, vast quarries and shipyards, capturing visual beauty in the ecological devastation. Full Review |
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Baichwal just tries to create a cinematic equivalent of Burtynsky's still images rather than a documentary on the artistic process of Burtynsky himself. So the end result is a film that would be better as a coffee table book. Full Review |
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2/4 |
Feels constrained and rather dutiful, no matter how passionate these people are about what they're observing. Full Review |
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3/4 |
Burtynsky calls for "a whole new way of thinking" about the world's economy and ecology, though he never says what's wrong with the old way. Full Review |
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The movie works best traveling from the eye straight to the conscience. Full Review |
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Pulls real, enigmatic beauty out of the artificial. Full Review |
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