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  • 2007
  • Unrated
  • Zeitgeist Films
  • 1 h 26 m
  • 2007
  • Unrated
  • Zeitgeist Films
  • 1 h 26 m

Summary Manufactured Landscapes begins as a portrait of acclaimed Canadian photographer Edward Burtynsky, who specializes in large-scale images of vast industrial landscapes. It quickly develops into a meditation on the human and environmental costs of the permanent and profound changes our planet is experiencing. Focusing on Burtynsky's images ...

Directed By: Jennifer Baichwal

Written By: Lucas Lackner

  • 2007
  • Unrated
  • Zeitgeist Films
  • 1 h 26 m
  • 2007
  • Unrated
  • Zeitgeist Films
  • 1 h 26 m

Manufactured Landscapes

Metascore Generally Favorable Based on 16 Critic Reviews
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Summary Manufactured Landscapes begins as a portrait of acclaimed Canadian photographer Edward Burtynsky, who specializes in large-scale images of vast industrial landscapes. It quickly develops into a meditation on the human and environmental costs of the permanent and profound changes our planet is experiencing. Focusing on Burtynsky's images ...

Directed By: Jennifer Baichwal

Written By: Lucas Lackner

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Leaves its audience with many troubling questions. Among them: Should a film console us with its own brilliance when it aims to discomfit us with its content?
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Jennifer Baichwal's gorgeous documentary Manufactured Landscapes amplifies the powerful work of Edward Burtynsky, a Canadian artist who specializes in large-scale photographs of terrain transformed by civilization into rivers and tides of industrial ugliness.
By Lisa Schwarzbaum FULL REVIEW
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Manufactured Landscapes makes an inelegant point elegantly. The point: Humanity is altering the landscape drastically and by implication irrevocably.
By Stephen Hunter FULL REVIEW
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Burtynsky doesn't preach. He's content to let viewers make up their own minds from his eye-opening and eye-pleasing images.
By V.A. Musetto FULL REVIEW
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Absorbing if unsettling documentary.
By Manohla Dargis FULL REVIEW
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Baichwal is comfortable with those moral and aesthetic ambiguities as well, and, as a result, she’s created a visual poem of devastation that makes one question one’s entire relationship to the world.
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Feels constrained and rather dutiful, no matter how passionate these people are about what they're observing.
By Michael Phillips FULL REVIEW

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Production Company Foundry Films, Mercury Films, National Film Board of Canada (NFB)
Release Date Jun 20, 2007
Duration 1 h 26 m
Rating Unrated
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Awards

Cinema Eye Honors Awards, US
• 3 Nominations
Toronto Film Critics Association Awards
• 2 Wins & 2 Nominations
RiverRun International Film Festival
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination

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