Samsara: movie review
Ron Fricke, who brought us 鈥淏araka,鈥� is back with another one of his globe-hopping, big-screen, oh-wow documentaries. 鈥淪amsara鈥� is even more vertiginous and abstract and New Agey than 鈥淏araka,鈥� with rapid-fire views of, oh, let鈥檚 see: Yosemite, the Himalayas, Mecca with its thousands of pilgrims during hajj, 1,000 Hand Goddess dancers from China, Gothic cathedrals, Versailles, Jersualem鈥檚 Wailing Wall, Angola鈥檚 Epupa Falls 鈥� and this is only a small sampling.
What does it all mean? I鈥檓 not convinced that Fricke鈥檚 movies are much more than exalted travelogues, but you certainly feel as if you鈥檝e been somewhere after you鈥檝e seen one of them. Grade: B (Rated PG-13 for some disturbing and sexual images.)
