In his exhilarating new film, German master Wim Wenders (Wings of Desire, The Buena Vista Social Club) captures the brilliantly inventive dance world of legendary choreographer Pina Bausch. Wenders had conceived with Bausch a dance film like none seen before, one which would put the viewer deep inside Bausch’s playful, thrillingly unpredictable pieces. After her untimely death in 2009, Wenders continued with the project, turning it into the most exciting tribute he could imagine. Sensual and visually stunning, Pina takes the audience into Bausch’s work in her imaginative sets (a gliding monorail, a bare stage covered with chairs, a towering man-made waterfall) and powerfully rendering the beauty and sheer physicality of the dances and dancers of her Tanztheater Wuppertal ensemble.
Although we would love to show the 3D version of this film it is fully realized in glorious 2D 35mm.
Director: Wim Wenders
Reviews:
94% on the Tomatometer
'Pina is an immersive, gorgeously shot tribute to the people who express life through movement'
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Reviewed by: Calvin Wilson
'The result, Pina, is the most spirited and spectacular film about dance since Robert Altman's "The Company." '
Charlotte Observer
Reviewed by: Lawrence Toppman
'Most documentaries put us inside people's heads. The dazzling, experimental Pina puts us inside people's feet.'
Chicago Tribune
Reviewed by: Michael Phillips
' In both theatrical environments and open-air ones, with Wenders paying close attention to the geometrics as well as the psychology of the movement, Pina is the best possible tribute to Bausch, and to adventurous image-making.'
Salon.com
Reviewed by: Andrew O'Hehir
'You don't have to know the first thing about modern dance to be transported to an alternate state of consciousness by Pina, which is utterly free of Wenders' cloying sentimentality (perhaps because it's an elegy for a dead friend) and might be the first of his films I've loved all the way through since his 1987 masterpiece, "Wings of Desire."'
Entertainment Weekly
Reviewed by: Lisa Schwarzbaum
'The result, in Pina, is...wow.'
Los Angeles Times
Reviewed by: Kenneth Turan
'Whether you're familiar with Pina Bausch's work or not, the new film Pina is a knockout.'
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