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Plot Summary
Visitors is the fourth collaboration of director Godfrey Reggio and composer Philip Glass now joined by filmmaker Jon Kane, advancing the film form pioneered by The Qatsi Trilogy (Koyaanisqatsi, Powaqqatsi, and Naqoyqatsi): the non-spoken narrative experience where each viewer’s response is radically different yet undeniably visceral. Comprised of only seventy-four shots, a series of human, animal and landscape portraits, Visitors takes movie watchers on an emotional journey to the moon and back.
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Rotten Tomatoes Movie Reviews
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69%- Reviews Counted: 51
- Fresh: 35
- Rotten: 16
- Average Rating: 6.2/10
Top Critics' Reviews
Fresh: The word for the film is transfixing.
Rotten: It all sounds quite convincing in theory, but in practice this melange of imagery is aimed more at the inside of Reggio's head than anywhere else.
Fresh: "Visitors" restores a sense of monumentality to a medium that has seemed so diminished by recent technological and commercial imperatives ...
Fresh: Non-narrative films can be opaque in deep ways. Visitors slips into pseudo-profundity. That said, I'd see it again.
Customer Reviews
A drag to watch
I love Koyaanisqatsi & Powaqqatsi, There are around the top of my list. Naqoyqatsi is pretty bad, a computer graphics mayhem. All three movies are previous collaborations between Reggio and Philip Glass.
Visitors, I expected, to be well up there with the other two masterpieces. Well, sorry to say it is a drag to watch. The photography is excellent, among the best I have seen, but you can’t base a movie on that. Taking closeup shots of faces is interesting the first 10 minutes or so, but after more than 30 minutes you become tired of it.
Koyaanisqatsi deals about nature, the urbanity and then chaos. Visitors does not make a point, it just plashes nice slow-motion captures either way. It is more an video-art installation than a movie.
And really, Glass can’t really do much here, the movie is dull, the music is dull too. Not much to work with. Such a pity really…such a pain.
humdrum… and Glass accentuates that.
a different soundtrack would have really brought more depth to this piece… Glass, has a tendency to be monotonous and excells with such in this peice… The crescendos, the repetition, the quick brass motif at the beginning referencing Space Odyssey… boring. The imagery, well it becomes predictable after a few minutes… Warhol’s films with his objects staring into the camera had more to offer and at a far less budget… I gather if perhaps the point of this film, was to depict the pretentiousness and contrivity in “man”, then this communicates that view well.
This piece seems to me to also be typical of this generation of what is “deemed” art. hmmmm...
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