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Flow: For Love of Water
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Based on 11 critic 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)
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What The Critics Said
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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?
Read Full Review >The Onion (A.V. Club) Nathan Rabin
Skips right past depressing on its way to apocalyptic.
Read Full Review >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.
Read Full Review >San Francisco Chronicle G. Allen Johnson
A very effective primer of an underreported problem.
Read Full Review >Village Voice Vadim Rizov
One of those charming little documentaries that make you question whether the human race is really worth preserving.
Read Full Review >Los Angeles Times Kenneth Turan
A smartly done, involving look at a number of interrelated water issues.
Read Full Review >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.
Read Full Review >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.
Read Full Review >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.
Read Full Review >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.
Read Full Review >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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