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Pina Review

  • Release Date: Jan 13, 2012
  • Rated: Some sensuality/partial nudity and smoking
  • Runtime: 1 hr. 44 min.
  • Genres: Art House/Foreign, Music/Performing Arts
  • Director:Wim Wenders

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Critics scores range from 0 to 100, with higher scores indicating more favorable reviews.

  • 5.0
    83

    out of 100

    Metascore®
    Universal acclaim
    based on a weighted average of all
    critic review scores.

  • 100

    out of 100

    Entertainment Weekly Lisa Schwarzbaum

    The result, in Pina, is...wow.

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  • 70

    out of 100

    The New York Times A.O. Scott

    The cumulative effect is exhilarating and also a bit frustrating, since so many dances are included and woven together the audience does not have the chance to experience any single work in its entirety. But the power and intelligence of Bausch's approach, which at times seems more cerebral than sensual, is communicated.

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  • 80

    out of 100

    Village Voice Melissa Anderson

    Pina gives us the supreme pleasure of watching fascinating bodies of widely varying ages in motion, whether leaping, falling, catching, diving, grieving, or exulting. Wenders's expert use of 3-D puts viewers up close to the spaces, both psychic and physical, inside and out, of Bausch's work.

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  • 80

    out of 100

    The Hollywood Reporter

    Wim Wenders' stylish 3D mirrors the bizarrely captivating world of choreographer Pina Bausch.

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  • 80

    out of 100

    Wall Street Journal Joe Morgenstern

    The images captured by the film - dancers in theatrical sets, dancers in surreal exterior settings - are deeply scary for their loneliness and pain, and crazily thrilling for the intensity of their joy.

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  • 88

    out of 100

    Chicago Sun-Times Roger Ebert

    I watched the film in a sort of reverie. The dancers seemed particularly absorbed. They had performed these dances many times before, but always with Pina Bausch present. Now they were on their own, in homage.

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  • 90

    out of 100

    Los Angeles Times Kenneth Turan

    Whether you're familiar with Pina Bausch's work or not, the new film Pina is a knockout.

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  • 90

    out of 100

    Variety Leslie Felperin

    Offering further proof that the latest 3D technology is good for a lot more than just lunging knives and fantastical storylines, Wim Wenders' dance docu Pina reps multidimensional entertainment that will send culture vultures swooning.

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5

What a treat by mlp8
Watching modern dance in 3D was an amazing experience - I think this technology just found a great new application! The dance was really modern - using water and dirt on stage to great effect as well as outdoors. Almost any movement was interpreted as dance, and some of them send shivers down your spine. There is no story there, but a series of performances and dancers giving tribute to the choreographer. I really enjoyed it though it felt just a bit too long.

4

Not for evereyone, but it should be by million dollar legs
This film is about 90% modern dance performed by a world renowned troupe of inspired dancers paying tribute to their recently deceased instructor. It is directed by one of the master film makers of our time. There were 8 people in the theater when I saw it, two of them walked out mid-way through. I am going to see it again.

5

by tr12367

4

by FKOOTZ

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