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Flow: For Love of Water

EMAILPRINTOscilloscope Pictures

Flow: For Love of Water reviews
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Movie Info

Genre(s): Documentary

Written by:

Directed by: Irena Salina

Release Date:
Theatrical: September 12, 2008
DVD: December 9, 2008

Running Time: 93 minutes, Color

Origin: USA

Summary

RATING: Not Rated

Irena Salina's documentary investigates what experts label the most important political and environmental issue of the 21st Century - The World Water Crisis. Salina builds a case against the growing privatization of the world's dwindling fresh water supply with an unflinching focus on politics, pollution, human rights, and the emergence of a domineering world water cartel. Interviews with scientists and activists intelligently reveal the rapidly building crisis, at both the global and human scale, and the film introduces many of the governmental and corporate culprits behind the water grab, while begging the question "CAN ANYONE REALLY OWN WATER?" Beyond identifying the problem, FLOW also gives viewers a look at the people and institutions providing practical solutions to the water crisis and those developing new technologies, which are fast becoming blueprints for a successful global and economic turnaround. (Oscilloscope Pictures)

What The Critics Said

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88

Charlotte Observer Lawrence Toppman

This documentary makes a terrible kind of sense. It reminds us that something we take for granted, like air, can be sold to us – if we can afford it. And if we can't, what happens then?

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75

The Onion (A.V. Club) Nathan Rabin

Skips right past depressing on its way to apocalyptic.

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75

New York Post V.A. Musetto

According to Irene Salina's eye-opening documentary Flow, 500,000 to 7 million US residents are sickened by tap water each year.

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75

San Francisco Chronicle G. Allen Johnson

A very effective primer of an underreported problem.

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70

Village Voice Vadim Rizov

One of those charming little documentaries that make you question whether the human race is really worth preserving.

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70

Los Angeles Times Kenneth Turan

A smartly done, involving look at a number of interrelated water issues.

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70

The New York Times Jeannette Catsoulis

Irena Salina's astonishingly wide-ranging film is less depressing than galvanizing, an informed and heartfelt examination of the tug of war between public health and private interests.

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67

Austin Chronicle Josh Rosenblatt

It's strange thinking of water as a market commodity, and it's hard to comprehend the kind of greed that must go into keeping it from needy mouths, but, fact is, the water business is now the world's third-largest industry, meaning there are a lot of sinister souls out there fiddling with their bank statements while Rome dries up.

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63

Boston Globe Ty Burr

Flow preaches to the choir with a starry-eyed NPR eco-humanism that can set the wrong kind of person's teeth on edge.

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60

The Hollywood Reporter Justin Lowe

Insistent, sometimes conspicuously one-sided, the film's concerns are difficult to dismiss, considering that a water-starved planet isn't ultimately viable.

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40

New York Daily News Joe Neumaier

Flow makes you thirsty for more information.

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What Our Users Said

The average user rating for this movie is 6.0 (out of 10) based on 1 User Votes

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