An uplifting feature documentary highlighting the transformative power of art and the beauty of the human spirit. Top-selling contemporary artist Vik Muniz takes us on an emotional journey from Jardim Gramacho, the world's largest landfill on the outskirts of Rio de Janeiro, to the heights of international art stardom. Vik collaborates with the brilliant catadores, pickers of recyclable materials, true Shakespearean characters who live and work in the garbage quoting Machiave... (Full plot summary below)
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An uplifting feature documentary highlighting the transformative power of art and the beauty of the human spirit. Top-selling contemporary artist Vik Muniz takes us on an emotional journey from Jardim Gramacho, the world's largest landfill on the outskirts of Rio de Janeiro, to the heights of international art stardom. Vik collaborates with the brilliant catadores, pickers of recyclable materials, true Shakespearean characters who live and work in the garbage quoting Machiavelli and showing us how to recycle ourselves.
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| Daily Telegraph (UK)Tim RobeyWalker finds inspiration and strange beauty in the squalor. |
| St. Paul Pioneer PressChris HewittIt's an unexpectedly beautiful film not only because Muniz's work is lovely but also because the film is so thoughtfully composed. |
| Spirituality and PracticeFrederic and Mary Ann BrussatAn astonishing documentary about a daring art project in the world's largest garbage dump in Rio de Janeiro that celebrates the pickers who labor there. |
| NYC Movie GuruAvi OfferCaptivating, inspirational and profoundly eye-opening. It's a testament to the true healing power of art. |
| St. Paul Pioneer PressChris Hewitt (St. Paul)It's an unexpectedly beautiful film not only because Muniz's work is lovely but also because the film is so thoughtfully composed. |
| Miami HeraldRene RodriguezIt shows us how artists find ideas and concepts for their work from the most unlikely sources, and it demonstrates the power of art to spark curiosity and cultural awareness in even the poorest, most underprivileged people. |
| Boston PhoenixGerald PearyWalker combines stirring studies of many of the Jardim Gramacho workers with a documenting of Muniz's project -- large-scale, dignified portraits framed by rephotographed, recyclable garbage. |
| Reeling ReviewsRobin Clifford...an eye opening account of human dignity. |
| Shadows on the WallRich ClineThis thoroughly involving documentary works on two levels: as a profile of an artist and as an exploration of human waste. And it's so cleverly assembled that it's entertaining and challenging at the same time. |
| ReelTalk Movie ReviewsDonald J. LevitA feel-good rarity that descends neither to cuteness nor sentimentality, does not editorialize, either, but lets subject, and subjects, show us what it's all about. |
