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- 2013
- Not Rated
- International Film Circuit
- 1 h 20 m
- 2013
- Not Rated
- International Film Circuit
- 1 h 20 m
Summary Brain scientist Professor Richard Davidson sets up his mind to conduct an unusual experiment: He will teach American war veterans and children meditation and yoga.
- 2013
- Not Rated
- International Film Circuit
- 1 h 20 m
- 2013
- Not Rated
- International Film Circuit
- 1 h 20 m
Free the Mind
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Summary Brain scientist Professor Richard Davidson sets up his mind to conduct an unusual experiment: He will teach American war veterans and children meditation and yoga.
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Metascore
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Based on 5 Critic Reviews
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60% Positive
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1 Review
Metascore
Mixed or Average
Based on 5 Critic Reviews
51
60% Positive
3 Reviews
3 Reviews
20% Mixed
1 Review
1 Review
20% Negative
1 Review
1 Review
There's something healing about simply watching Free the Mind, Danish filmmaker Phie Ambo's gentle, compassionate documentary.
Though perhaps more suited to PBS or classrooms than to movie screens, the documentary is engrossing and just may encourage more people to look less to pharmacology for answers and more within.
Phie Ambo deftly captures her subjects' sense of paranoia and helplessness without encroaching on their brave candor.
Ms. Ambo communicates the notion of compassion and calm as something teachable, but perhaps feeling already convinced, she’s less ambitious as a filmmaker about taking her subject and her portraits to another level.
Ambo's argument is frayed by her arbitrary recommendations of meditation as a panacea for unrelated psychological difficulties. Even more baffling, the director neglects to define this culturally and geographically variable practice with any exactitude.
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Production Company
Danmarks Radio (DR),
Making Movies,
Special Broadcasting Service (SBS),
Sveriges Television (SVT),
Vrijzinnig Protestantse Radio Omroep (VPRO),
Yleisradio (YLE)
Release Date May 3, 2013
Duration 1 h 20 m
Rating Not Rated
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Tagline Can you rewire the brain just by taking a breath?
