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Waste Land (2010) 7.7
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Metascore: 78/100
Reviews: 20 user | 87 critic | 20 from Metacritic.com An uplifting feature documentary highlighting the transformative power of art and the beauty of the human spirit. Top-selling contemporary artist Vik Muniz takes us on an emotional journey ... See full summary » |
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An uplifting feature documentary highlighting the transformative power of art and the beauty of the human spirit. Top-selling contemporary artist Vik Muniz takes us on an emotional journey from Jardim Gramacho, the world's largest landfill on the outskirts of Rio de Janeiro, to the heights of international art stardom. Vik collaborates with the brilliant catadores, pickers of recyclable materials, true Shakespearean characters who live and work in the garbage quoting Machiavelli and showing us how to recycle ourselves. Written by Anonymous
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Release Date:
21 January 2011 (Brazil) See more »Also Known As:
Lixo Extraordinário See more »Box Office
Budget:
$1,500,000 (estimated)Opening Weekend:
$8,656 (USA) (5 November 2010)Gross:
$187,716 (USA) (18 March 2011)Company Credits
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It's hard to not be moved by this film. Although the film takes about an hour to get going, once the movie gets its footing you will be mesmerized by how transformative creativity can be for the soul. You want a happy ending for everyone involved, you want everyone to leave their metallic shacks to live in houses with plumbing, you want in essence a perfect world...no warts and all.
However, only Hollywood scripts give birth to such wild fantasy and this film is real and by its own measure, the happiness we see, while real, may only be fleeting.
Waste Land is an excellent film.