Plot Summary
Shot in breathtaking 70mm in 24 countries on six continents, BARAKA is a transcendent global tour that explores the sights and sounds of the human condition like nothing you’ve ever seen or felt before. These are the wonders of a world without words, viewed through man and nature’s own prisms of symmetry, savagery, harmony and chaos. From the filmmakers of the upcoming SAMSARA.
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Rotten Tomatoes Movie Reviews
TOMATOMETER
80%- Reviews Counted: 25
- Fresh: 20
- Rotten: 5
- Average Rating: 6.7/10
Top Critics' Reviews
Fresh: The form is ravishing, though the content suffers by comparison.
Fresh: Nothing in this epic visual poem is less than extraordinary.
Fresh: It is claimed that the great age of travel is dead - that there are no longer amazing, exotic, beautiful and fearsome places for the traveler to discover. A movie like Baraka gives hope.
Rotten: The film's one-world thesis is asserted but never made convincing, as Fricke zigzags from the Western Wall to whirling dervishes to the Grand Mosque of Mecca in a superficial gloss on faith (and everything else).
Customer Reviews
Baraka
One of the greatest Documentary Films ever made. The imagery is breathtaking, revealing humanity, art, history, religion, tradition and culture through moving images. The visual experience of this film should not be missed by any cinema lover. This is film as art ~ to the highest degree!
dope!
Saw this movie in a humanities class in my community college. This one was dope. The teacher put it on and asked us if it was art, Hell yeah it's art! The class was about art and what makes something art, what the function of art is and we looked at different songs, movies, paintings and books and we talked about how they push this definition of art... it was cool but yeah check this one out Hinson is absolutely right it's an epic visual poem.
Above Top Critic's Reviews Are Ridiculous
Patrick McGavin, Hal Hinson and Fred Camper, have to be the most illiterate and artistically inept reviewers I have ever come across. Really! Roger Ebert is the only one of the above reviewers giving this a positive review and he is a joke. See this film and discover for yourself that this is truly a masterpiece of film making and that these negative reviewer's critiques of quality are highly suspect!
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- $19.99
- Genre: Documentary
- Released: 1993
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