By turns rapturously beautiful and unspeakably sad while considering the consequences of unchecked urban sprawl.
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The Unforeseen (2007)
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Reviews Counted:11
Fresh:10
Rotten:1
Average Rating:7.4/10
Consensus: A calm documentary that doesn't resort to shrill polemics, The Unforeseen also benefits from great interview subjects and jaw-dropping cinematography.
Theatrical Release:Feb 29, 2008 Limited
Synopsis: Laura Dunn's feature-length directorial debut is a profoundly stirring, visually stunning, and emotionally overpowering work of epic beauty. Sharing a kinship with the film's executive producer,... [More]
Starring: Robert Redford, Willie Nelson, Ann Richards, Wendell Berry
Director: Laura Dunne
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Top CriticNo one who sees this intriguing documentary will want to argue with reporter Greider when he forcefully insists, "We need a more mature regard for the future." We do indeed.
03/14/08
Top Critic[Cinematographer] Daniel has never shot a film for Malick, though you'd hardly guess so, given The Unforeseen's poetic and dreamy shots of nature that, like the images that open the Malick's "The Thin Red Line," hint at an Earthly paradise.
03/14/08
Top CriticThe Unforeseen is a poetic and high-minded meditation on American developers’ manifest destiny and the cancer it introduces into the natural world.
03/10/08
Top CriticAs frustrating as it is welcome.
03/07/08
Top CriticAn unusually poetic and meditative eco-themed documentary, Laura Dunn's The Unforeseen is as beautiful as it is ultimately depressing.
03/05/08
Top CriticThe Unforeseen explores the rights of man, the death of nature, the water below, the air above and all that going, going, gone green in between.
02/29/08
Top CriticAdd The Unforeseen to the catalog of artfully produced nonfiction films that show how humans are screwing up the planet.
02/28/08
Top CriticThe movie's glacial pace and willingness to let its mind and eye wander that produces its spiritual and intellectual heft—not to mention its atypical visual splendor.
02/27/08
Top CriticA beautiful, soulful work about real estate development and sprawl, focused on Austin's beloved Barton Springs, and if you think that's impossible you haven't seen it.
03/20/07
Top CriticThe kind of transformative viewing experience that has made the current period a golden age for nonfiction film.
01/31/07
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