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Vivan las Antipodas!

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Victor Kossakovsky captures images from antipodes.

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Mike McCahill Guardian 11/21/2013
You emerge wondering what (and who) might lie beneath your own feet. Go to Full Review
Trevor Johnston Time Out 11/19/2013
4/5
Unlike, say, similar globetrotting, image-led works like Koyaanisqatsi or Baraka, Kossakovsky's film is never preachy, allowing the visuals to percolate. Go to Full Review
Vadim Rizov Filmmaker Magazine 01/24/2023
An upside-down gaze from a moving car’s rear window of China in motion looks like a Fifth Element-lavish future world found right here and now. Go to Full Review
Patrick Gamble CineVue 03/06/2019
4/5
Kossakovsky' humanist sensibilities and informal, lyrical approach allows the audience to deduce their own conclusions. Go to Full Review
Philip Kemp Total Film 11/20/2013
4/5
Lovely stuff. Go to Full Review
Alan Laidlaw The List 11/05/2013
3/5
Perhaps a documentary to be more admired than loved. Go to Full Review
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06/05/2014 they say opposites attract See more 11/22/2013 The director is a bit behind the times; check Smithsonian channel for more current and engaging approaches to similar material. One line summary: Well-shot, but boring. -------------------------------------------- The film has four parts, one for each pair of antipodal points examined. One: Entre Rios, Argentina and Shanghai, China. Argentina alternated between great beauty and straight out boring; Shanghai was both beautifully shot and repellent. Two: Chilean Patagonia and Lake Baikal in Russia Prosaic lives versus prosaic lives; in both cases, set against majestic landscapes almost devoid of human life. Great camera work. Three: Big Island, Hawaii and Kubu, Botswana Both dreadfully ugly. Four: Miraflores, Spain and Castle Point, New Zealand Thank God, there is an end to this. The upside down video has my teeth on edge by this point. More of the same, only less interesting. Sawing up the dead whale was not a plus, nor was the footage of digging a hole and pushing the corpse in. ------Scores------- Cinematography: 10/10 Excellent. Watch this in high definition if at all possible. Sound: 8/10 Sparse, but well done. Acting: z/10 Not applicable. Screenplay: 5/10 The transition from one point to its antipodal point given by sky down ground up was amusing the first time, but immediately lost its charm thereafter. Some of the juxtapositions were amusing, others were just boring. See more 11/18/2013 Beautifully made and shot, poetically contrasting and perfectly mundane yet speaks so much about the world. See more 05/25/2013 Saw this at the 2012 international film festival. Simply beautiful See more 09/13/2012 the inventive camera movements and breath taking images, make this en experience worth taking. pretty to look at. might have been shorter though.. See more 08/11/2012 This was by far, without a doubt, the most boring, disappointing and time wasting film ever to hit the cinema. The film clocks in at 1 hour 40 minutes, most of which has no dialogue, is comprised of thirty to a minute long scenes of trivial nothingness, and is plagued with the worst score of any movie ever. An utterly embarrassing 'movie,' this ridiculous excuse for a picture is not even worth two minutes of screen time. The dry jokes only make it worse, too. 0/10 See more Read all reviews
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Movie Info

Synopsis Victor Kossakovsky captures images from antipodes.
Director
Victor Kossakovsky
Producer
Heino Deckert
Genre
Documentary
Original Language
Spanish
Release Date (Streaming)
Mar 11, 2017
Runtime
1h 48m