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Director: Ron Fricke
Ron Fricke was the cinematographer on Koyaanisqatsi and in the 30 years since that film's release, to my knowledge, he has directed 2 feature length films and one short film. All have had similar themes and similar use of images as Koyaanisqatsi, but neither Baraka nor Chronos came close to that film's power. Not so with Samsara, which marries stunning images to a wonderful narrative, expunging (most of) the cheap ironies which marred Koyaaniqatsi. Music is the only place where this film lags - it's largely unobstrusive, sometimes propulsive, but nowhere close to Philip Glass's scores for the Qatsi trilogy. I'm likely overrating this one, but it'd be the first film I'd show extraterrestrials upon arriving on this planet.
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