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From the Director of The Thin Blue Line and A Brief History of Time
"Two Very Enthusiastic Thumbs Up! One of the YearÕs Best Films!" -- Siskel & Ebert
"A Stunning Achievement Unlike Anything YouÕve Seen Before!" -- Andrew Sarris, New York Observer
"Errol Morris' delightfully exotic documentary explores the curious thoughts of four visionaries: a topiary gardener, a lion tamer, a robot scientist and an expert in the social behaviour of mole rats. All are interesting, but certainly the most fascinating figure here is the man behind the camera. The director of The Thin Blue Line and A Brief History of Time remains a one-of-a-kind filmmaker capable of melding science, philosophy, poetry and sheer whimsy into an elaborate meditation on mankindÕs mysteries... Morris roams from garden to circus to laboratory in search of models for human behaviour... There is George Mendoca, who has spent his lifetime envisioning and pruning topiary animal shapes... Rodney Brooks, the MIT robot scientist, smiles with a wild gleam in his eye when describing, say, how watching a group of ants haul a piece of breakfast cereal inspired one of his grander experiments... Also here is Ray Mendez, who wears a butterfly-patterned bow tie as he gleefully explains the ramifications of mole rat studies... Dave Hoover, a lion tamer, brings no less wisdom to bear upon the more practical problem of how to understand what a lion is thinking... Morris imaginatively weaves together his speakers' ideas to achieve a much larger overview than any of them achieves individually, and to make haunting connections among man, beast and machine... [The film intersperses] eerily poetic images with flashes of the humour and even absurdity that come with life in an offbeat profession..." -- Janet Maslin, The New York Times
(USA, 1997, 82 min.)
Classification: TBA
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