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A tour around England featuring images of nature and various industrialized and militarized settings.
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| Slant MagazineChris CabinRobinson's very name ties him to explorers like Crusoe and Walden, but he is also something like JLG's whispering leftist prankster who butted into 2 or 3 Things I Know About Her to intermittently spout rhetoric over images of freeways and construction sites. |
| Monsters and CriticsRon WilkinsonA combination of poem and polemic. The obituary of a society that never had it better. |
| Financial TimesNigel AndrewsKeiller casts a spell. His "psychogeographical" methods unearth secrets about Britain not merely physical but spiritual, cultural, economic. |
| Radio TimesDavid ParkinsonKeiller's follow up to his cine-essays London and Robinson In Space is another intelligent, thought-provoking piece of filmmaking. |
| Time OutKeith UhlichComparable works like John Gianvito's "Profit Motive and the Whispering Wind," or nearly anything from cine-essayist Chris Marker's oeuvre, mine similar territory much more rewardingly. |
| GuardianPeter BradshawPerhaps it is all a little recondite, but there are moments of austere visual poetry... |
| CultureCatchBrandon JudellOne often hears of actors reading the phonebook and exalting their fans in doing so. Here the superb Vanessa Redgrave achieves this narrative feat, except the phone numbers are replaced by historical facts united by a journey of a make-believe character. |
| Cinema ScopeMichael SicinskiAs compared to the intensive wandering of the first two films, Ruins is characterized by a kind of stillness, emphasized by an almost musical structure in terms of its visuals. |
| Total FilmCarmen GrayThere are moments of real absurdist humour, but Vanessa Redgrave's droning narration over endless shots of flowers makes it feel like a combo of recent radio news and a nature-themed screensaver. |
| Daily Telegraph (UK)Tim RobeyIt's too abstruse for its own good, and often boring. |