Synopsis
Pina is a feature-length dance film in 3D with the ensemble of the Tanztheater Wuppertal Pina Bausch, featuring the unique and inspiring art of the great German choreographer, who died in the summer of 2009.
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Cast
- Regina AdventoSelf
- Malou AiraudoSelf
- Ruth AmaranteSelf
- Pina BauschSelf (archive footage)
- Jorge PuertaSelf
- Mechthild GroßmannSelf
- Rainer BehrSelf
- Andrey BerezinSelf
- Josephine Ann EndicottSelf
- Helena PikonSelf
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Movieline
What's remarkable about Pina is how democratic it is, how casual it is about opening up the world of modern dance to people who know, or perhaps care, little about it. - 90
Variety
Offering further proof that the latest 3D technology is good for a lot more than just lunging knives and fantastical storylines, Wim Wenders' dance docu Pina reps multidimensional entertainment that will send culture vultures swooning. - 80
The New Yorker
What is unambiguous is the campaign that Pina mounts, with joy and without fuss, against age discrimination; by law, the film should be screened, on a monthly basis, for Hollywood casting agents. - 80
Time Out
This isn't the kind of doc to explain everything (or anything, really)-it does honor its subject, though, and that's plenty. - 80
Village Voice
Pina gives us the supreme pleasure of watching fascinating bodies of widely varying ages in motion, whether leaping, falling, catching, diving, grieving, or exulting. Wenders's expert use of 3-D puts viewers up close to the spaces, both psychic and physical, inside and out, of Bausch's work. - 80
The Hollywood Reporter
Wim Wenders' stylish 3D mirrors the bizarrely captivating world of choreographer Pina Bausch. - 75
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
Bausch's work, as performed by her dance company Tanztheater Wuppertal, is shot exactingly by Wenders, who captures everything from the largest gestures to the subtlest facial nuances in ways impossible in 2-D – and of course in far closer detail than seeing the dances performed live. - 67
The A.V. Club
It's also representative of Pina's major flaw: the inability of artists to get out of their own way.
