Should you watch Baraka?
Who it’s good for, who it isn’t, and what’s in it. No ratings, no scores.
Baraka
Documentary · 1992
A paralysingly beautiful documentary with a global vision—an odyssey through landscape and time—that attempts to capture the essence of life.
The sides of Baraka
- A monkey sitting in a hot spring
- Pilgrims bathing in the Ganges
- Time lapse of crowds and skies
Baraka is good for you if…
- you want ninety minutes of images shot on seventy millimetre film.
- you want a score to carry you from a temple to a factory.
- you like feeling small in front of deserts, monks and cities.
Baraka is bad for you if…
- you want people talking and there is not one line in the film.
- you need momentum and not a held shot of a mountain.
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