What could possibly go wrong when ten beautiful strangers — six women and four men — are thrown together in cramped quarters for a closely observed transatlantic voyage? Surprisingly, not the kind of wrong Mexican anthropologist Santiago Genovés had hoped for when he conducted this very test in 1973, putting his chosen guinea pigs on a set-adrift steel raft named the Acali that he envisioned would turn into a hotbed of interpersonal strife and aggression.
As Swedish artist-filmmaker Marcus Lindeen’s documentary “The Raft” compellingly retells with the help of archival footage, new interviews, and artistic reconstruction, this one-of-a-kind experiment in human behavior — which Genovés called the “Peace Project” — wound up revealing as much about its controlling mastermind as it did the searching souls he recruited for what became 101 days of extreme waterborne isolation.
It’s a fascinating story of endurance, shaky scientific methods, and solidarity that’s been given a thoughtful resurrection...
As Swedish artist-filmmaker Marcus Lindeen’s documentary “The Raft” compellingly retells with the help of archival footage, new interviews, and artistic reconstruction, this one-of-a-kind experiment in human behavior — which Genovés called the “Peace Project” — wound up revealing as much about its controlling mastermind as it did the searching souls he recruited for what became 101 days of extreme waterborne isolation.
It’s a fascinating story of endurance, shaky scientific methods, and solidarity that’s been given a thoughtful resurrection...
- 6/13/2019
- by Robert Abele
- The Wrap
Hollywood's most elegantly natural, defiantly independent actress comes alive in a film biography about her personal life, using inside family testimony, rare film and her diaries. Sweden's Ingrid seems more radiant than ever. Ingrid Bergman in Her Own Words Blu-ray The Criterion Collection 82228 2015 / B&W-Color / 1:78 widescreen / 114 min. / Jag är Ingrid / available through The Criterion Collection / Street Date August 16, 2016 / 39.95 Starring Pia Lindström, Roberto Rossellini, Ingrid Rossellini, Isabella Rossellini, Fiorella Mariani, Liv Ullmann, Sigourney Weaver, Jeanine Basinger. Ingrid Bergman's voice Alicia Vikander Film Editor Dominika Daubenbüchel Original Music Michael Nyman Written by Stig Björkman, Stina Gardell and Dominika Daubenbüchel Produced by Stina Gardell Directed by Stig Björkman
Reviewed by Glenn Erickson
Ingrid Bergman had one of the most fascinating lives of any woman of the 20th century. An ambitious actress, she let herself be guided by her desires and her heart. Although banished by Hollywood and vilified by the press,...
Reviewed by Glenn Erickson
Ingrid Bergman had one of the most fascinating lives of any woman of the 20th century. An ambitious actress, she let herself be guided by her desires and her heart. Although banished by Hollywood and vilified by the press,...
- 8/13/2016
- by Glenn Erickson
- Trailers from Hell
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