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      Gambling, Gods and LSD

      2002 3h 0m Documentary List
      80% 5 Reviews Tomatometer 83% 100+ Ratings Audience Score 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. Read More Read Less

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      Audience Member One of the most interesting, risk-taking documentaries ever made. Rated 5 out of 5 stars 01/21/23 Full Review Audience Member 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 Full Review 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 Full Review Audience Member Hypnotic, mesmerizing, but a bit too long. Rated 4 out of 5 stars 02/19/23 Full Review 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 Full Review 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 Full Review Read all reviews Post a rating

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      Jamie Russell BBC.com Rated: 2/5 Feb 3, 2004 Full Review Toronto Star Rated: 4/5 Mar 12, 2003 Full Review Globe and Mail Rated: 3/4 Mar 12, 2003 Full Review 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 Full Review 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 Full Review Read all reviews

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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
      Atom Egoyan, Peter Mettler
      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)