Gambling, Gods and LSD

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Gambling, Gods and LSD

2002

3h 0m

Documentary

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5 Reviews

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100+ Ratings

Filmmaker Peter Mettler embarks on a mission that takes him around the world. He is determined to record the diverse modes of transcendence that people in different cultures adopt in order to live life to the fullest. As he traverses civilization and wilderness and encounters a range of lifestyles and ideas, the filmmaker's mind-expanding trip around the world grows into a poem of images and sounds, reflecting the fragmented but alluring worlds it attempts to capture.

Jamie Russell

BBC.com

Rated: 2/5

Feb 3, 2004

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Toronto Star

Rated: 4/5

Mar 12, 2003

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Globe and Mail

Rated: 3/4

Mar 12, 2003

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Dennis Schwartz

Dennis Schwartz Movie Reviews

Plays out as a bold meditative essay on transcendence and our relationship to nature.

Rated: B+

Jun 11, 2008

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Brian Gibson

Vue Weekly (Edmonton, Alberta)

A fascinating travelogue that links ephemeral images, people's notions of consciousness and eerie landscapes to suggest that all life on this planet is somehow connected.

Dec 1, 2003

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One of the most interesting, risk-taking documentaries ever made.

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

01/21/23

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Mettler says his eerie poetic documentary 'is making itself' as the camera leads him around Toronto, Vegas, Switzerland, India. Poignant narration and ambient music patiently guide the viewer to become accessible and receive the films deep sentiments, not always accessible. The piece is punctuated by moments of mutual bedazzlement, earthlings locked in fleeting, pure fascination. The film made itself with Mettler as the in-between, but with a bit of coaxing, the audience completes it themselves - as participants in a patient triangulation.

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

02/23/23

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Audience Member

Do better at keeping our interest Peter Mettler. Walked out on it at the Film festival. Couldn't keep my eyes open.

Rated 2 out of 5 stars

02/07/23

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Hypnotic, mesmerizing, but a bit too long.

Rated 4 out of 5 stars

02/19/23

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Audience Member

Very obviously from the Chris Marker school of essay-filmmaking, but that's doesn't hurt it. It's still amazingly amazing.

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

01/16/23

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Audience Member

Beautiful images, but when you're not on something to watch this was just weird.

Rated 3 out of 5 stars

02/08/23

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Peter Mettler

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Peter Mettler

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Peter Mettler

Film Editing

Ingrid Veninger

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Alexandra Rockingham Gill

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Synopsis

Filmmaker Peter Mettler embarks on a mission that takes him around the world. He is determined to record the diverse modes of transcendence that people in different cultures adopt in order to live life to the fullest. As he traverses civilization and wilderness and encounters a range of lifestyles and ideas, the filmmaker's mind-expanding trip around the world grows into a poem of images and sounds, reflecting the fragmented but alluring worlds it attempts to capture.

Director: Peter Mettler
Producer: Ingrid Veninger, Alexandra Rockingham Gill, Cornelia Seitler
Screenwriter: Peter Mettler
Genre: Documentary
Original Language: English
Runtime: 3h 0m
Sound Mix: Dolby SR, Dolby A, DTS, Dolby Stereo, Dolby Digital
Aspect Ratio: Flat (1.66:1)