
In modern dance since the 1970s, few choreographers have had more influence in the medium than the late Pina Bausch. This film explores the life and work of this artist of movement while we see her company perform her most notable creations where basic things like water, dirt and even gravity take on otherworldly qualities in their dancing.... (Full plot summary below)
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In modern dance since the 1970s, few choreographers have had more influence in the medium than the late Pina Bausch. This film explores the life and work of this artist of movement while we see her company perform her most notable creations where basic things like water, dirt and even gravity take on otherworldly qualities in their dancing.
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| Cinema em CenaPablo VillaçaWenders usa sua própria forma de expressão artística (o Cinema) para recriar e enriquecer a obra de Bausch. |
| Philadelphia InquirerSteven ReaThe real 3-D experience of the season is Pina, Wim Wenders' shockingly beautiful and moving tribute to the late German choreographer Pina Bausch. |
| Chicago ReaderAndrea GronvallThe movie he (Wenders) went on to make with her Tanztheater Wuppertal is more than an elegy; his meticulous use of 3D endows the performances with a corporeality and intimacy hitherto unseen in a dance film. |
| Chicago TribuneMichael PhillipsIn both theatrical environments and open-air ones, with Wenders paying close attention to the geometrics as well as the psychology of the movement, Pina is the best possible tribute to Bausch, and to adventurous image-making. |
| Salon.comAndrew O'HehirYou don't have to know the first thing about modern dance to be transported to an alternate state of consciousness by Pina, which is utterly free of Wenders' cloying sentimentality (perhaps because it's an elegy for a dead friend) and might be the first of his films I've loved all the way through since his 1987 masterpiece, "Wings of Desire." |
| St. Louis Post-DispatchCalvin WilsonThe result, Pina, is the most spirited and spectacular film about dance since Robert Altman's "The Company." |
| Financial TimesAntonia QuirkeYour eyes fall out of your head. You find yourself in and out of a trance, considering the thousand layers of depth through the surface of the screen. |
| Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN)John Beifuss'Undefeated' won the Oscar, but the most truly inspiring of the Documentary Feature nominees is 'Pina.' I know next to nothing about dance, and I was mesmerized. |
| Miami HeraldJordan LevinWatching Pina is like being inside one of Bausch's surreal pieces. |
| Milwaukee Journal SentinelSteve RamosAn immersive moviegoing experience beyond imagination. |