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Baraka (re-release)

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Baraka (re-release) reviews
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9.5 User Score:

Movie Info

Genre(s): Documentary

Written by:

Directed by: Ron Fricke

Release Date:
Theatrical: February 6, 2003
DVD: September 25, 2001

Running Time: 96 minutes, Color

Origin: USA

Summary

RATING: Not Rated

Filmed in 24 countries on 6 continents and set to an ever-changing global soundtrack, this 1992 documentary is a pastiche of images of the natural world.

What The Critics Said

All critic scores are converted to a 100-point scale. If a critic does not indicate a score, we assign a score based on the general impression given by the text of the review. Learn more...

100

Variety Suzan Ayscough

Words can't do justice to the visual masterpiece Baraka.

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60

TV Guide David Bartholomew

A paralyzingly beautiful documentary with a global vision: an odyssey through landscape and time, which is an attempt to capture the essence of life.

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What Our Users Said

The average user rating for this movie is 9.5 (out of 10) based on 14 User Votes

Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.

Cher N gave it a10:
A beautiful film. Couldn't stop watching. It gets your attention at once. Worth the time.

Richard W. gave it a10:
A sunning visual narrative that takes the breath away. It encapulates the human condition in a way i've seldom seen in film. A true masterpeice that deserves greater recognition than it recieves. Truly, truly stunning!

Mads T. gave it a 10:
Perfection... It touches you in a way you'll newer dreamt could be done. An almost chocking experience!

Yoon C. gave it an 8:
At its worst, it's either an empty travelogue with pretty but hollow images or preachy new age film about modern man's imbalance in the cosmic order. At its best, it's a sweeping and comprehensive celebration of human spiritual/artistic achievement, the timelessness of the human soul, and possibility of the everlasting and the transient uniting to create a sense of harmony between man and nature.

Mustafa B. gave it a 10:
It was a beautiful picture of the heart ... A deep gaze into the nothingness and the beauty it has. Still thinking of it. It is hard to forget that scene, stars, sky, everything, and everything, has been spinning ... What a pleasure it was .... I am grateful to those who brought the fragrance of life to our soul.

Jethro G. gave it a 10:
Stunning, awesome, meditative, sublime, jarring, culturally relativistic, sobering, inspiring, catalyst for action, reverent, masterful, visually intense, like fractals, a metaphor for humanity, binary oppositions juxtaposed, contrasted, complementary.

Cemil G. gave it a 10:
"We come face to face with dark side of the dark side of cosmos" says my wife. As for me,Baraka is one of the few films which prove that cinema is an art form.

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