Robinson in Ruins

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Robinson in Ruins

2010

1h 41m

Documentary

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100+ Ratings

A tour of southern England provides great images of nature.

Chris Chang

Film Comment Magazine

Not only is this elegiac work filled with paradoxical hope for humanity's future, it's also an encouraging sign of life-an indication of the robust health of documentary art

Nov 7, 2013

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Andy Webster

New York Times

An exaltation of life counters the intimations of extinction, trumping the polemical despair.

Rated: 3/5

Jan 11, 2012

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Keith Uhlich

Time Out

The results are both enlightening and enervating.

Rated: 3/5

Jan 10, 2012

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Michael Sicinski

Cinema Scope

As 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.

Nov 28, 2017

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Louis Proyect

rec.arts.movies.reviews

Not your everyday fare. A Marxist documentary assault on Tory-inspired rot in Britain. Hopefully it will inspire young American filmmakers to go after our own filthy rich.

Jan 14, 2012

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Daily Express (UK)

Vanessa Redgrave provides the narration of a beautifully photographed, meandering film essay that fails to match the impact of either London or Robinson In Space.

Nov 19, 2010

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watching robinson in ruins, my god, get someone else to narrator this. lady is a bore. it's like watching a 80s documentary in elementary school .....

Rated 1 out of 5 stars

01/24/23

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The Robinson films are not like anything else. They are heavy academic essays dressed up, rather knowingly, as very slight, slightly comical fictions about a wandering, unseen thinker who considers what meanings might be discovered in the landscape. If you are prepared to endure the sedate story-teller voice over device and the locked-off shots of seemingly mundane aspects of seemingly mundane urban and exurban scenes, you might experience the mind-expanding moments that fans of Robinson gain from these films.

Rated 4 out of 5 stars

02/16/23

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Audience Member

Another visual essay, appending the life of Robinson from the previous films. Space is given to the viewer to consider the landscapes, the history and the politics that surround us, while nature and its custodians do what they've always done. A Marmite of a movie. Every image and every sentence loaded with meaning and counter-meaning.

Rated 4 out of 5 stars

01/31/23

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Great to see this addition to the Robinson series of films. It's not as good as the previous two though - I can see why they chose Redgrave to replace Schofield but I think McKellan or similar would have been a better choice.

Rated 4 out of 5 stars

01/26/23

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Synopsis

A tour of southern England provides great images of nature.

Director: Patrick Keiller
Genre: Documentary
Original Language: English
Runtime: 1h 41m