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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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Samsra by peach.don
Love this film. Most people won't bother. There is no real story line. It's some of the best photography and music ever put to film. Hitting 25 countries with...

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