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A documentary about a group of pilgrims who travel to Nepal to worship at the legendary Manakamana temple.
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| NPRMark JenkinsManakamana doesn't answer any questions, yet makes its point: Nepal, like the rest of our planet, is a picturesque but far from peaceable kingdom. |
| Linoleum KnifeDave WhiteThe beauty and rhythms of the fixed camera's highly specific focus builds a hypnotic group narrative of religion's possibility, the ways in which it can bring joy and peace. |
| Little White LiesDavid JenkinsMultiple viewings simply allow for more diverse and creative readings of the material. |
| Irish TimesDonald ClarkeManakamana works as a tone poem, a Warholian revel in the mundane and an ethnographic study of an isolated corner. |
| Cinema ScopeJay KuehnerManakamana is a record of this circuitry, an index of faces seen in the act of seeing, thrust into the vacancy of a nature that scrolls by like some uncanny rear projection from an old Hollywood film. |
| Blu-ray.comBrian OrndorfIt's hypnotic work with a terrific sense of cultural study and geography. |
| NewcityRay PrideThere is little dialogue and no explication, only a succession of dreamy rides, one of which is given over to goats. |
| Film Comment MagazineJonathan RomneyManakamana is a travel film that's not about the ride, but the riders. Ourselves included, of course. |
| NOW TorontoNorman WilnerIf you're prone to carsickness, this might not be the ideal movie for you. But as a meditation on the way human beings fill the silence - or choose not to - it's an amazing accomplishment. |
| New York TimesManohla DargisBy focusing on such a narrow slice of Nepali life, Ms. Spray and Mr. Velez have ceded any totalizing claim on the truth and instead settled for a perfect incompleteness. |