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  • Summary: The Ister is a 3000km journey to the heart of Europe, from the mouth of the Danube river on the Black Sea, to its source in the German Black Forest. By joining a vast philosophical narrative with an epic voyage along Europe’s greatest waterway, The Ister invites you to unravel the extraordinary past and future of 'the West.' (Black Box Sound and Image)… Expand

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  1. Positive: 4 out of 6
  2. Mixed: 2 out of 6
  3. Negative: 0 out of 6
  1. Chicago Reader
    Reviewed by: Jonathan Rosenbaum
    90
    Unprecedented in its intellectual ambition, this is endlessly stimulating; it probably tries for too much, but it shames many other contemporary essays that try for too little.
  2. The New York Times
    Reviewed by: Nathan Lee
    80
    The Ister asks you not to think, but to think hard. Your reward, given in proportion to your level of attention, commitment and participation, is to see the simplest things in a new light, possessed of vast new dimensions.
  3. Empire
    Reviewed by: Staff (Not credited)
    60
    'Highbrow' might be the best way to sum it all up. Interesting and stimulating, if not always successful.

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