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Earth

Erde (Earth)

2019

Nikolaus Geyrhalter

Documentary

6.5

31

Documentary Humans move billions of tons of earth every year, with shovels, bulldozers or dynamite. Nikolaus Geyrhalter observes people in mines, quarries and large construction sites, in a constant struggle to appropriate the planet. A portrait of the Earth in the Anthropocene: in seven places that humans have transformed on a grand scale: entire mountains moved in California, a tunnel cut through rock in the Brenner Pass, an open-pit mine in ... [+]

	Author	Review
United States	Neil Young The Hollywood Reporter	"High ambition is matched by impressive execution, resulting in a thought-provoking contribution to ongoing ecological debates."	POS
	Vladan Petkovic Cineuropa	"One of the most important and poignant environmental documentaries in recent years (...) Geyrhalter adorns this extremely complex theme with his trademark rigorous narrative structure, and it works wonders"	POS
United Kingdom	Peter Bradshaw The Guardian	"You might compare this to the landscape cinema of James Benning. But Geyrhalter proves again that he is a unique figure in world cinema (…) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS

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