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  • 2003
  • Unrated
  • Balcony Releasing
  • 1 h 18 m
  • 2003
  • Unrated
  • Balcony Releasing
  • 1 h 18 m

Summary Working as river guides for much of the 1970's, the director and his friends lived an unscheduled, communal, (often naked), outdoor life. Cutting between images of a month-long river trip filmed twenty-five years ago and the current lives of five people from that trip, the film explores bodies, time's passage and living with one's life ...

  • 2003
  • Unrated
  • Balcony Releasing
  • 1 h 18 m
  • 2003
  • Unrated
  • Balcony Releasing
  • 1 h 18 m

The Same River Twice

Metascore Generally Favorable Based on 17 Critic Reviews
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Summary Working as river guides for much of the 1970's, the director and his friends lived an unscheduled, communal, (often naked), outdoor life. Cutting between images of a month-long river trip filmed twenty-five years ago and the current lives of five people from that trip, the film explores bodies, time's passage and living with one's life ...

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Metascore
Generally Favorable Based on 17 Critic Reviews
62
65% Positive
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35% Mixed
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0% Negative
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Metascore
Generally Favorable Based on 17 Critic Reviews
62
65% Positive
11 Reviews
35% Mixed
6 Reviews
0% Negative
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Other documentaries have crisscrossed between time frames, but Moss' beguiling The Same River Twice represents one of the most effective uses of the device.
By Kevin Thomas FULL REVIEW
75
Intimate, quietly illuminating documentary.
By Carla Meyer FULL REVIEW
70
Moss has an acute feeling for structure and juxtaposition and for the quality and sensibility of his friends.
By Jonathan Rosenbaum FULL REVIEW
70
A piercingly poignant then-and-now portrait of five friends.
By Stephen Holden FULL REVIEW
60
The filmmaker presents a portrait of the emotional and physical effects of aging and maturity that is occasionally poignant but not particularly deep.
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It's a generous document of cultural passage, and not incidentally, the sexiest naturally nudist American movie since Murnau's "Tabu." Moss, however, keeps himself out of the picture and neglects massive amounts of context that might've made Same River a stunner.
By Michael Atkinson FULL REVIEW
50
Only marginally interesting.
By V.A. Musetto FULL REVIEW

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Release Date Sep 10, 2003
Duration 1 h 18 m
Rating Unrated
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Website http://www.samerivertwice.com/
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Awards

Sidewalk Film Festival
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
Nashville Film Festival
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
Sundance Film Festival
• 1 Nomination

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