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- 2009
- Not Rated
- Zeitgeist Films
- 1 h 27 m
- 2009
- Not Rated
- Zeitgeist Films
- 1 h 27 m
Summary In Examined Life, filmmaker Astra Taylor accompanies some of today’s most influential thinkers on a series of unique excursions through places and spaces that hold particular resonance for them and their ideas. (Zeitgeist Films)
Directed By: Astra Taylor
Written By: Astra Taylor
- 2009
- Not Rated
- Zeitgeist Films
- 1 h 27 m
- 2009
- Not Rated
- Zeitgeist Films
- 1 h 27 m
Examined Life
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Summary In Examined Life, filmmaker Astra Taylor accompanies some of today’s most influential thinkers on a series of unique excursions through places and spaces that hold particular resonance for them and their ideas. (Zeitgeist Films)
Directed By: Astra Taylor
Written By: Astra Taylor
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 7 Critic Reviews
64
71% Positive
5 Reviews
5 Reviews
29% Mixed
2 Reviews
2 Reviews
0% Negative
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Slovenian-born writer-teacher Slavoj Zizek, narrator of the movie "A Pervert's Guide to the Cinema," provides the most entertainment.
By conducting her conversations in public spaces, and removing her interlocutors from desks and offices and book-lined studies and other appurtenances of intellectual authority, Taylor introduces a degree of playfulness and unpredictability that becomes the movie's M.O.
Ideas beam out from Astra Taylor's engaging new philoso-doc Examined Life; the viewer basks in the intelligence on-screen and, occasionally, soaks up the rays.
Over the course of the film's 88-minutes, Taylor cuts away to what's happening around her subjects (the unexamined life, I suppose). Perhaps she's attempting to make connections the thinkers don't.
It won't be everybody's idea of entertainment but the heady documentary "Examined Life" provides a sound forum for an influential cross-section of professional thinkers to theorize on such weighty topics as life and death, politics, the environment and disabilities.
A modest, intermittently engaging film.
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Production Company
Sphinx Productions
Release Date Feb 25, 2009
Duration 1 h 27 m
Rating Not Rated
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Tagline Philosophy is in the streets.
