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PINA is a feature-length dance film with the ensemble of the Tanztheater Wupperta, featuring the unique and inspiring art of the great German choreographer, who died in the summer of 2009. Director Wim Wenders takes the audience on a visually stunning journey of discovery into a new dimension: straight onto the stage with the legendary ensemble and follows the dancers out of the theatre into the city and the surrounding areas of Wuppertal the place, which for 35 years was the home and center for Pina Bausch s creativity.
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United Kingdom released, PAL/Region 2 DVD: LANGUAGES: English ( Dolby Digital 5.1 ), French ( Dolby Digital 5.1 ), German ( Dolby Digital 5.1 ), Spanish ( Dolby Digital Stereo ), English ( Subtitles ), WIDESCREEN (1.78:1), SPECIAL FEATURES: Cast/Crew Interview(s), Interactive Menu, Scene Access, Trailer(s), SYNOPSIS: Pina is a feature-length dance film with the ensemble of the Tanztheater Wupperta, featuring the unique and inspiring art of the great German choreographer, who died in the summer of 2009. Director Wim Wenders takes the audience on a visually stunning journey of discovery into a new dimension: straight onto the stage with the legendary ensemble and follows the dancers out of the theatre into the city and the surrounding areas of Wuppertal - the place, which for 35 years was the home and center for Pina Bausch's creativity. ...Pina ( Pina - tanzt, tanzt, sonst sind wir verloren )
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43 of 46 people found the following review helpful
Format:DVD
An amazing testimonial to the outstanding career of Pina Bausch, "PINA" displays all the attributes you would expect from a director such as Wim Wenders. Delivered in a documentary style, it includes stunning visual vistas taken from Pina Bausch's past performances intertwined with contemporary bespoke pieces that demonstrate vitality and sincerity. Tribute after tribute from her loyal dancers provide intriguing insights into her life and personality, often extremely moving. Having just viewed the 3D version of the film I can highly recommend it, whether you're a fan of the late Pina Bausch or indeed of Wim Wenders, whose use of the 3D format is startlingly brilliant and really does add significantly to the sense of presence as the camera intimately flirts with the dancers on stage. Whilst this film may prove a little too radical for some tastes, it is certainly a masterpiece for those who are appreciative of Pina Bausch's artistic talent. You won't be disappointed.
5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
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This is a film you can watch many times, the dancers are so wonderful and the whole thing amounts to a statement of great beauty about movement and psychology. Pina herself remains an enigmatic figure, clearly much loved and missed by the dancers, but we don't see that much of her. What we do see has the kind of grace you might expect, both in her dancing and presence. We just see a short clip of her in Cafe Muller but it makes an indelible effect, it seems to come from some extraordinary place. She explains it in terms of where you look behind closed eyelids, but this doesn't seem to account for the interiority of her performance. The other dancers are all amazing in their different ways; I couldn't help thinking how soulful and beautiful they were, as if they all inhabit a state of grace. Maybe to dance at this level does give a special state of consciousness, removed from the hierarchy of a more traditional company. It is different in each case, however every one of them is compelling. The pieces they perform have a strangeness often, and a rightness. I don't always feel I know what is going on exactly, but they give joy in any case, and a kind of release, as if Bausch in her pieces was able to access something beyond other choreographers. There is a lot of play between genders and to do with sexual tension, as well as playfulness and humour. One dancer frolics in the water with a large fake hippopotamus. Another was asked to do a movement that meant joy to him, he improvised something, and Pina turned it into a brilliant ensemble piece. You are moved and burst into a smile at the same time. It is nice to see how she also used older dancers than we usually see, to great expressive effect. Her company is a wonderful example of working in a group and what it can achieve; one's response is a slight envy of people who spend their working life concerned only with the most elevated things, creating beauty and communicating through it; they are very lucky, but it must be very exacting too.
17 of 19 people found the following review helpful
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watched the movie in the electric cinema in notting hill. just loved it . first few mins a bit unsettling , more for my companions than me as they werent sure what theyd got themselves into, but was amazing and moving for me. especially the "cafe" piece. her dancers really illustrated their total devotion to bausch and dance which i found quite humbling and inspiring.you dont need to be a dancer to learn from and appreciate this great artist.
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Another superb project from Wim Wenders....
Though I am a bit of a fan of Wim Wenders, which is why I watched this film when it came on Sky Arts, I was rather more sceptical amount watching a documentary about modern dance... Read more
Published 1 month ago by Tim Kidner
Beautiful film
I really enjoyed this film. It consists of archival material, interviews with Bausch's dancers and footage of the dances. Read more
Published 4 months ago by AAF
my introduction (more or less) to modern dance
Having seen a review and clips of this and enjoying that, along with a burgeoning interest in dance, I thought it would be good to give this movie documentary a go. Read more
Published 4 months ago by Mr. Robert Marsland
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Sticking a camera in front of an acclaimed stage production usually results in an awkward mess that drains its source material of life and reduces it to a display of embarrassing... Read more
Published 5 months ago by Dariush Alavi
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This film gives a fascinating overview of the way in which Pina Bausch worked. Her "family" of dancers living and working together in Wuppertal, in a way similar to Russian... Read more
Published 5 months ago by Hilly Gilly
Beyond words
Beyond words : the inventiveness, humour and poetry of the images and the deep emotion behind them. I've waited decades for this film of Pina Bausch's work. Read more
Published 6 months ago by Andrew Colvin
Excellent!!!
Pina is a fantastic film! It is incredibly inspiring and should be a must watch for dancers and really anyone. it represents dance in a very respectable way!! buy!!!
Published 6 months ago by Harrydee
Great Film, bad DVD presentation
I wanted to give this 5 stars for the dancers and for the filming. Unfortunately the DVD presentation itself lets the film down. Read more
Published 7 months ago by Adrian
Amazing Movie
First of all let me start by saying that i am not a very artsy person. That being said , i purchased this DVD as a present for my girlfriend. Read more
Published 7 months ago by paguerunner
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