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Samsara

  • Release Date: Aug 24, 2012
  • Rated: Some Sexual Images and Some Disturbing Images
  • Runtime: 1 hr. 39 min.
  • Genres: Documentary
  • Director:Ron Fricke

Synopsis

Director and cinematographer Ron Fricke offers a striking glimpse into some of the world's most remarkable happenings in this visually spectacular documentary. Following in the same template as 1992's Baraka (also directed by Fricke), Samsara is a study in the ways humanity works as a collective and as individuals, with the cycle of human existence providing the subtext for the parade of images (the title is a Tibetan word meaning "the wheel of life"). Combining scenes of destruction and rebirth, images...more

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A MUST FOR ANYONE WHO LOVES THE VISUAL; NOT ONE WORD IS SPOKEN BUT IT IS A GLORIOUS CREATION; ONE YOU WILL NEVER FORGET! THE WORLD VIEWED THROUGH THE EYES OF MASTER FILMMAKERS! by Peneflix
It is daunting to choose a resonating scene, they are all meaningful, mesmerizing, memory-binding; but seeing the "inmates" performing in perfect harmony; a...

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Samsara by anandnadh
The director has shown his audience a cosmic picture of existence. A man of visions and enlightenment. The picture is taken with utmost care and intricacy....

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