Pina
- Directors: Wim Wenders
- Cast: Malou Airaudo, Pina Bausch, Regina Advento
Documentary. 103 minutes. PG. 2011 Being screened in 2D at the Little Art.
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Synopsis for Pina:Academy Award Nominee for Best Documentary Film
"Dance, dance, or we are lost." Pina Bausch's final words summarize her life and provide the inspiration for acclaimed director Wim Wenders' (Wings of Desire, Buena Vista Social Club) breathtaking tribute to the legendary choreographer. Bausch and her Tanztheater Wuppertal elevated dance into brilliantly subversive new expressive realms, and in this exhilarating film Wenders captures the raw, heart-stopping intensity of the movement and in stunning 3D (screening in 2D at the Little Art) transforms it into a transcendent cinematic experience. An official selection of the Berlinale, Telluride, Toronto and New York film festivals. Pina offers an indelible image of an artist who went the full distance in her uncommonly rich creative life.
"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."—Andrew O'Hehir, Salon.com
"Whether you're familiar with Pina Bausch's work or not, the new film Pina is a knockout."—Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times
"The images captured by the film — dancers in theatrical sets, dancers in surreal exterior settings — are deeply scary for their loneliness and pain, and crazily thrilling for the intensity of their joy."—Joe Morganstern, Wall Street Journal