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Same River Twice, The
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Based on 18 critic reviews
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Movie Info
Genre(s): Documentary
Written by:
Directed by: Robb Moss
Release Date:
Theatrical: September 10, 2003
DVD: February 22, 2005
Running Time: 78 minutes, Color
Origin: USA
Summary
RATING: Not Rated
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 choices. (Next Life Films)
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What The Critics Said
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Film Threat Eric Campos
Congratulations to Robb Moss for making such a crowd-pleaser. But more importantly, congratulations to Moss for having such interesting friends.
Read Full Review >Los Angeles Times Kevin Thomas
Other documentaries have crisscrossed between time frames, but Moss' beguiling The Same River Twice represents one of the most effective uses of the device.
Read Full Review >Chicago Tribune Robert K. Elder
The title of Robb Moss' documentary, The Same River Twice, draws directly from Greek philosopher Heraclitus' claim that "It is impossible to step in the same river twice."
Read Full Review >Chicago Reader Jonathan Rosenbaum
Moss has an acute feeling for structure and juxtaposition and for the quality and sensibility of his friends.
Read Full Review >LA Weekly Ella Taylor
Far from an arthritic exercise in hippie nostalgia. There is a seasoned richness and vivid specificity to these lives, for all their hurts and losses. Yet the movie is shot through with an undeniable note of elegiac wistfulness.
Read Full Review >Variety Dennis Harvey
Has the built-in curiosity value of watching real people evolve on camera -- a fascination increased by subjects' original, variably sustained commitment to countercultural ideals.
Read Full Review >The New York Times Stephen Holden
A piercingly poignant then-and-now portrait of five friends.
Read Full Review >The Onion (A.V. Club) Keith Phipps
Moss offers few startling revelations, but gently gets at the truth of his subjects' lives by playing the past against the present.
Read Full Review >Washington Post Philip Kennicott
If you can get past the "Big Chill" setup, there is a fine piece of moviemaking here.
Read Full Review >New York Daily News Elizabeth Weitzman
The old footage is definitely compelling, but once Moss trains his focus on the quotidian present, the movie takes on too much water to stay afloat.
Read Full Review >The Hollywood Reporter Frank Scheck
The filmmaker presents a portrait of the emotional and physical effects of aging and maturity that is occasionally poignant but not particularly deep.
Read Full Review >Village Voice Michael Atkinson
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.
Read Full Review >Austin Chronicle Marjorie Baumgarten
The movie offers glimmers of truth about the aging process, but there is always the sense that Moss only wades knee-high into this river.
Read Full Review >Boston Globe Ty Burr
Youth recedes, the body decays, life is a compromised thing: These are truths. But they're not fresh truths, and Moss's riverdogs are hardly the first to have discovered them.
Read Full Review >Washington Post Steve Hendrix
An ultimately unsatisfying then-and-now look at some late-'70s free spirits.
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The average user rating for this movie is 10.0 (out of 10) based on 1 User Votes
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