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Robinson in Ruins

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A tour of southern England provides great images of nature.

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Chris Chang Film Comment Magazine 11/07/2013
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 Go to Full Review
Andy Webster New York Times 01/11/2012
3/5
An exaltation of life counters the intimations of extinction, trumping the polemical despair. Go to Full Review
Keith Uhlich Time Out 01/10/2012
3/5
The results are both enlightening and enervating. Go to Full Review
Michael Sicinski Cinema Scope 11/28/2017
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. Go to Full Review
Louis Proyect rec.arts.movies.reviews 01/14/2012
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. Go to Full Review
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07/17/2013 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 ..... See more 07/24/2011 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. See more 12/15/2010 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. See more 10/21/2010 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. See more Read all reviews
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Movie Info

Synopsis A tour of southern England provides great images of nature.
Director
Patrick Keiller
Genre
Documentary
Original Language
English
Runtime
1h 41m