Reviews for this film from our members:
- Marina Antunes @ Quiet Earth
- Rick Aragon @ Rick’s Cafe Texan
- Excerpt: Samsara, minus one off moment that veers into weirdness, is a visual and intellectual feast.
- Jason Bailey @ DVD Talk
- Excerpt: A unique and beautiful film that generates genuine awe in a moviegoing season where that quality is all too rare.
- Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat @ SpiritualityandPractice.com
- Excerpt: An enthralling non-narrative documentary with images from five continents that becomes a guided meditation on the wheel of life and death while also depicting the rituals and practices that can lead to personal transformation; one of the best films of 2012 that you will treasure all your life.
- Carson Lund @ Are the Hills Going to March Off?
- Excerpt: As a cumulative work of art, I feel cheated. To the extent that the film expresses anything, it deals in fortune-cookie clichés: destruction is creation, beauty is in the eye of the beholder, power corrupts, progress is relative, etc.
- [New – 3/1] | Marty Mapes @ Movie Habit
- Excerpt: Meet your new go-to disc for showing off your home theater
- Darren Mooney @ the m0vie blog
- Excerpt: It goes almost without saying that Fricke’s cinematography is transcendental. That said, Samsara does suffer a bit from being heavy-handed with its central themes and ideas – quite an accomplishment for a film with no dialogue.
- Bev Questad @ It’s Just Movies
- Excerpt: This glorious poem of life, set to a gentle, haunting original score, guides the viewer in a visual meditation on the nature of life.
- Jamie S. Rich @ Portland Mercury
- Excerpt: The guys known for arranging footage of stuff have arranged a bunch more stuff. With a world music soundtrack!
- Jonathan Richards @ www,jonrichardsplace.com
- Excerpt: For all the negatives it shows, Samsara is not a downer. The beauty ultimately trumps the squalor.
- Jerry Roberts @ Armchair Cinema
- Excerpt: Occasionally you get a film that makes you feel this planet and see places that you will never see with your own eyes. “Samsara” is one of those films, a film that lets you experience the flow of nature and question where it went wrong.
- Tom Santilli @ Examiner.com
- Excerpt: But if you are in for a meditative, hypnotic experience, look no further than Samsara. And then look deeper.
- Frank Swietek @ One Guy’s Opinion
- Jean-François Vandeuren @ Panorama-cinema.com [French]
- James Wegg @ JWR
- Excerpt: Behold: Planet Earth
- Ron Wilkinson @ MonstersandCritics.com
- Excerpt: A rambling assault on the visual cortex that teeters between guided meditation and guided tour.
