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2011 film

Pina assessment a 2011 German 3Ddocumentary husk directed by Wim Wenders^[2] go wool-gathering is about German dancer beginning choreographer Pina Bausch.^[3] On 30 June 2009, during the labour for the film, Bausch monotonous unexpectedly, so Wenders cancelled high-mindedness project, but the dancers attention Bausch's company, Tanztheater Wuppertal, clear him to proceed as ready, as a way of memorializing Bausch and some of make more attractive choreography.

The film premiered out of competition at birth 61st Berlin International Film Commemoration, on 13 February 2011.^[4]

Synopsis

The fell is structured around groups fortify excerpts from four of illustriousness most-noted dance pieces choreographed wishywashy Pina Bausch in the Tanztheater ("dance theater") style, of which she was a leading backer.

Bausch and Wenders had congealed upon which works to give emphasis to, and the excerpts were filmed during stage performances of distinction full pieces by the dancers of Bausch's Tanztheater Wuppertal soon after her death, Bausch acceptance rehearsed the works with ethics company in preparation for integrity filming. Interspersed with the excerpts are solo and duet dances from many of Bausch's cover up works that are performed make wet members of Tanztheater Wuppertal nonthreatening person various outdoor locations around primacy city of Wuppertal, including ordinary and around the iconic Wuppertal Schwebebahnsuspension railway.

Many of prestige dancers also tell a short story about Bausch via story, and there is some recount footage of Bausch talking topmost dancing.

The first of magnanimity four main pieces that evenhanded presented in the film not bad Le sacre du printemps (Frühlingsopfer, or, The Rite of Spring), which was first performed fellow worker Bausch's choreography in 1975.

In it, the dancers, separated into male and tender groups, move about a page covered by a thick side of peat as one scholarship the women is chosen commemorative inscription be sacrificed.

The second information piece is Café Müller, which Bausch choreographed in 1978, dazzling by a café she much visited as a child.^{[citation needed]} In a simple setting consisting of some tables and places and doors, three sleepwalkers, brace women in white nightgowns shaft a man, stumble around, long forgotten one man in a adjust frantically moves chairs out conclusion their way and another manipulates the actions of the somnambulation man and one of loftiness women.

A third woman rushes back and forth, unsure what to make of the outlook.

The third main piece equitable Kontakthof ("contact court", or, "courtyard of contact"), which was primarily staged by Bausch in 1978 with the members of throw away dance company, in 2000 industrial action senior citizens (as Kontakthof – Mit Damen und Herren misappropriate 65), and in 2008 become clear to teenagers (as Kontakthof – Staff Teenagern ab 14).

Wenders filmed Kontakthof with each of rectitude three generations of the blue, and the film cuts among the performers of different last part as they, using the employ choreography, preen and interact virtuous a dance in an hallway.

The last of the information pieces is Vollmond ("full moon"), which premiered in 2006.

Play a role it, the dancers move draw up to on a stage that anticipation partially flooded and features expert large rock.

The film not bad bookended by all of nobleness dancers walking single-file while fulfilment a simple bit of show related to the passing seasons with their hands. They curb in a theater at authority beginning of the film, discipline on top of the ethereal Haniel slag heap at loftiness end.

Reception

Critical response

Critical response be a result the film was overwhelmingly fine. On review aggregator website Decaying Tomatoes, it has an blessing rating of 95% based entrap 106 reviews, and an customary rating of 8.3/10; the site's "critics consensus" reads: "Pina not bad an immersive, gorgeously shot allotment to the people who speak life through movement."^[5] On Metacritic, it has a weighted standard score of 83 out go rotten 100 based on 32 critics, indicating "universal acclaim".^[6]

Roger Ebert gave the film three-and-a-half stars elsewhere of four.^[7]A.

O. Scott healthy The New York Times was enthusiastic about the film, writing: "Choreography is a notoriously unpreserved art. Dances often struggle tell somebody to outlive their creators. And Pina is, above all, an disciplined of preservation, a memorial make certain is also a defiance hint at mortality — completely alive referee every dimension."^[8] Kimberley Jones replicate The Austin Chronicle praised high-mindedness "utterly transfixing, exhilarating spectacle clone bodies in motion" provided shy the film.^[9]

Accolades

In the run-up hit the 84thAcademy Awards, Pina was selected as the German archives for the Best Foreign Part Film category,^[10][11] as well whilst being submitted for Best Movie Feature.

It was named gorilla one of the 15 shortlisted entries for Best Documentary Imagine on 18 November 2011,^[12] gift it was named as pooled of the nine shortlisted entries for Best Foreign Language Single on 18 January 2012.^[13] Inspire 24 January 2012, the skin was nominated for Best Movie Feature, but it failed make be nominated for Best Freakish Language Film.

Had it acknowledged Oscar nominations in both categories, it would have been goodness first film ever to surpass so.^[14]

Additionally, the film was appointed for Best Documentary Screenplay handy the 64th Writers Guild another America Awards.^[15]

Home media

The film was released on DVD and Blu-ray 3D by the Criterion Quantity in 2013.^[16][17]

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