Pina

Nominee
Best Documentary Feature Film
Writers Guild of America
Nominee
Best Documentary Feature
Academy Awards
The question is, What do you get from Pina that you could not get from watching the Tanztheater live? Answer: More than you could possibly believe.
-- Anthony Lane, The New Yorker

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Pina

“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 transforms it into a transcendent cinematic experience. An official selection of the Berlinale, Telluride, Toronto and New York film festivals, and now Germany's official entry for the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film, PINA features interviews with and performances by Bausch's beloved original company members, and offers an indelible image of an artist who went the full distance in her uncommonly rich creative life.

An Oscar nominee for Best Documentary Feature.

A Writers Guild of America nominee for Best Documentary Screenplay of 2011.
PG
Genre
Documentary
Web Site
http://www.ifcfilm…
Runtime
103
Language
English
Director
Wim Wenders
Cast
Pina Bausch, Regina Advento, Malou Airaudo
Awards:
Nominee, Best Documentary Feature Film, Writers Guild of America
Nominee, Best Documentary Feature, Academy Awards
FEATURED REVIEW
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times

Pina Bausch was a much-loved German choreographer whose work was unlike anybody else's, incorporating earth, water, stones and city streets into music and movement. She was greatly admired by German director Wim Wenders, who delayed the notion of filming her work until the recent developments in 3-D ...

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