Samsara

Cast

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  Ron Fricke Director
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  Balinese Tari Legong Dancers Self - Dancers: Indonesia
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  Ni Made Megahadi Pratiwi Self - Dancer: Valinese Tari Legong Dancers, Indonesia
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  Puti Sri Candra Dewi Self - Dancer: Valinese Tari Legong Dancers, Indonesia
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  Putu Dinda Pratika Self - Dancer: Valinese Tari Legong Dancers, Indonesia
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  Marcos Luna Self - Tattoo Daddy: USA
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  Hiroshi Ishiguro Self - Professor and Robot Clone: Japan
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  Olivier De Sagazan Self - Man At Desk: France
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  Ladyboys of Cascade Bar Self - Dancers: Thailand
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  Kikumaru Self - Geisha: Japan
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  Crisanto Neire Self - Lead Singer: Cebu Provincial Detenton Center, Philippines
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  Robert Henline Self - U>S> Army Veteran: USA

Available Subtitles

English,Filipino,Français,Indonesian,Kiswahili,Português,Русский,اَلْعَرَبِيَّةُ,اُردُو,هَرْشٜن هَوْس,বাংলা,ਪੰਜਾਬੀ

Viewer comments

• mmoshaya 2023-05-29

  source: Samsara

• Gigi PN 2023-05-23

  My BFF and myself went to see this tonight, the last night it was playing... This was the most Intense, Mind Blowing, Movie I have ever seen. The experience was just amazing.... My tears rolled down immediately from the beginning until the very end... the chicken, cows and pigs really hit me, hurt a lot, I am a Vegan and I had to look away thru this, it was very painful... I learned soooooo much from these two hours and can honestly tell you that this Documentary, did change something within me and I continue to seek the Love, Compassion for all of Life, and Loving Beings with the hearts to touch. We are one, we are all, we are Love.... Thank You so VERY much for this Amazing Love!..

• Denrele Edun 2023-05-23

  1. Full of banalities and clichés like slums v. expensive high-rise apartment buildings; slaughtered pigs - fat people eating hamburgers - preparation to a liposuction operation. Some episodes are clearly far-fetched - like a guy (a school-teacher, I suppose), covering his head with mud. What does it have to do with the idea of the film? Even if it happens to have any other idea than the one I described above. 2. The worst thing - the trailer makes you think that you are going to see beautiful things, while what you actually see are children's corpses, animals' carcasses and mutilated faces. 3. I sincerely regret having spent money on buying the tickets to watch this film and in this way sponsoring its authors.

• 𝚂𝚒𝚖𝚊𝚊 2023-05-23

  I just saw a screening of Samsara at the TIFF, at the brilliant TIFF Lightbox theatre. Wow. A film that took 5 years to make and co-ordinate. Shot in Panarama 70mm, across 26 countries, needing major government and regulatory clearances, having to wait for certain seasons or lunar phases to get the light to hit the way director Fricke wanted...carefully strung together with a massive 7.1 surround sound design and music score from Michael Stearns, Marcello de Francisci, and Lisa Gerrard (of Dead Can Dance). The 70mm negative has been digitally scanned and oversampled at 8k resolution (much like the 'Baraka' Blu-ray); the TIFF Lightbox theatre installed a brand new Christie 4k projector (Christie Projection Systems rushed the projector before its release to the market specifically for this event) making it the first true 4k screening of it's kind. From sweeping landscapes to time-lapse sequences of the night sky and from exclusive looks into the processing of food to the consumption and effects it has on the human body, Samsara is nothing short of astounding. Modern technology, production lines, and human robotics are juxtaposed against a backdrop of deserts, garbage mounds as far as the eye can see, and traffic congestion in modern centres. The time-lapse footage is simply transcendent. In fact, I caught myself questioning the reality of some of the landscape vistas and night skyline montages...they looked so hyper-real that I thought they must have come from a CG lab somewher

• rehan2255 2023-05-23

  Just watched the Sky Screening at Greenwich-O2. Thank you Sky for the ticket. Amazing movie with great visuals (mind it... no added CG). The time lapse sequences were simply amazing. Can totally believe that it took 5 years to complete the picturization. Every second spent on creating this visual symphony is worth it. Real impressed with the production team's reach. They even managed to capture amazing sequences from within a jail in China. Now I need to find a way of watching this team's 1992 movie 'Baraka'. I sincerely hope that it is commercially successful so that, we can see more from this amazing team.

• Queen Taaooma 2023-05-23

  For the first 10 minutes I thought it was a mistake to have bought the ticket. It was first time for me to see a documentary film without any commentary. The images were so beautiful and interesting, but I expected that I would get bored in a few minutes. And in fact, I did. but after a while, somehow I gradually got absorbed in the movie again. Keeping watching gorgeous images leads me to a kind of meditation. and in the end, I ended up getting impressed. You can experience something different from ordinary documentary. It is definitely a movie for theater, not for a small home television. If you get interested in this movie, you should go see it in a theatre.

• Océee 2023-05-23

  There is no doubt Samsara is visually breathtaking. But it is not only about nice "pictures" or the good and bad face of humanity. The logic of this movie follows the rules of the classic fascist aesthetics. It is about greatness in every level, a totally megalomaniac scale on what Mr. Ron Fricke thinks about the world. Come on, who the hell believes that the US is only about buying, eating and guns? who thinks that in certain communities there are no bad things, like the scenes in Nepal or with the Maasai people. Only the innocence of the children and the sacred art. South-America is about the favelas and trash collectors? It is a tradition in Europe(US as well) that people are looking for untouched lands and holiness in the Far-East, but come on, it is obviously a lie. Without a "script" it works only as a photo collage, not more. I cannot believe that Fricke sees the world in that simple way. Our information about the world is more layered and more complex, than guns and McDonalds are bad and Buddhism is good. How they connect the scenes is also a bit clumsy. After the industry of weapons we can see a dead man, who is buried in a gun shaped coffin. So the message of the movie is equally deep like a summer blockbuster and they even doesn't let you think about it, they make it so obvious for you, that you only have to accept their ideas. That is why I say that this is an old fashioned propaganda movie. Luckily it doesn't serve any ideology, but it could have been an amazing

• Ceranora 2023-05-23

  I came across the trailer for Samsara having never heard anything about it before, or the filmmakers involved, but the trailer alone made me want to check it out. I got to see it in IMAX and I'm glad I did as, as everyone else has said, visually it is stunning, so the bigger the screen you can see it on the better. I have never seen Fricke's previous work such as Baraka so I had no idea what to truly expect when I sat down before it started. I see people have mentioned they got bored after 30 minutes due to the lack of dialog/narration and that overall it's too long but I couldn't disagree more. From the first scene to last, I was totally engrossed in the visual and audio experience. The juxtaposition of concepts and themes worked, I got to see places and activities I didn't know about in a way I have never seen before. The soundtrack is spot on, capturing and switching the moods perfectly. It moves you. I see critics have said that the message of Samsara isn't clear but I don't think it needs a message. Seeing Samsara has enhanced my understanding, and appreciation for, the way our world is and works, and what really matters most to us. How many times can you go to the cinema and come out a more knowledgeable person? Samsara is quite simply a work of art and, like all great art, you interpret it in your own individual way and it makes you think. Do yourself a favor and experience it.

• Chelsie M 2023-05-23

  This film was a disappointment for me, especially considering how much I loved Baraka (the director's other film which is very similar). I could go into many details about what I disliked about it, but the main points are these: 1. It's not nearly as groundbreaking as you might think. Why? Well, first of all, although the cinematography and scenery is indeed stunning at times, technically speaking, it's no step up from Baraka which was made twenty years prior to this. They were both shot on 65MM (released in 70MM) film. Essentially, nothing has changed in Fricke's filmmaking techniques. He repeats many of the same or similar types of shots from Baraka. We get the people staring into the camera who must feel awkward and are usually not smiling. (How is this better than just a photograph, by the way?) We also see more time-lapse photography of cities and factories and lots of people moving about; again, this is nothing new. 2. There are too many stereotypical travel sites/sights and clichés. If you like travelling at all and have read or seen any travel magazines, or even if you've been watching a lot of films and documentaries for a while, then you should already be quite familiar with many of the places and images shown in this film. The opening shots in Burma, while admittedly amazing, are not much better than what has been seen in Lonely Planet guides and National Geographic magazines. I could say the same for typical scenes of African tribes and even the poverty (again, st