Gurukulam

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Gurukulam

Released Jun 3, 2016

1h 48m

Documentary

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Teachers and students confront questions about the nature of reality and self identity in a remote forest in southern India.

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G. Allen Johnson

San Francisco Chronicle

A film that seems as if the directors stayed about four days, shot what they could and left ...

Rated: 2/4

Jun 16, 2016

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Frank Scheck

The Hollywood Reporter

By the time the film ends, you'll certainly have the feeling of what it must be like to experience life in this bucolic spiritual retreat. Unfortunately, you'll also feel like you've been there for the full five weeks.

Jun 15, 2016

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Gary Goldstein

Los Angeles Times

For a movie seemingly concerned with clarity and enlightenment, it's woefully lacking in both.

Jun 9, 2016

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Tricia Olszewski

Washington City Paper

Redundancy is key to absorbing many Hindu teachings, mind you, but we don't need to repeatedly watch people chow down or get dressed or avoid cows in the road.

Jan 2, 2017

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Richard von Busack

MetroActive

Ultimately besotted with the subject, the camera grows passive, encouraging the hierarchal approach to enlightenment, and the kind of wishful thinking that tries to pray away elephants.

Dec 31, 2016

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Sean P. Means

Salt Lake Tribune

Whether you find the documentary Gurukulam meditative or just boring will likely depend on how you feel about the Indian guru at its center, so you get out of the movie only what you take with you.

Rated: 3/4

Jul 15, 2016

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There arent enough movies like this that reflect to humanity its present spiritual condition and the hope of moving upward on the evolutionary spiral.

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

02/19/23

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Neil Dalal

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Jillian Elizabeth

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Dayananda Saraswati

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Synopsis

Teachers and students confront questions about the nature of reality and self identity in a remote forest in southern India.

Director: Neil Dalal, Jillian Elizabeth
Producer: Jillian Elizabeth
Distributor: Matson Films
Genre: Documentary
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Jun 3, 2016, Limited
Release Date (Streaming): Nov 1, 2016
Runtime: 1h 48m

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