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Go after Pina and you're going to have to go through a mob of modern-dance zealots first.
What are people saying?
What are critics saying?
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It's a surprise to see Wim Wenders embracing 3D in its full, feature-length glory but the medium works well to capture the graceful swirl of the German choreographer's work.
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This isn't the kind of doc to explain everything (or anything, really)-it does honor its subject, though, and that's plenty.
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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.
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Village Voice by Melissa Anderson
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.
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It's also representative of Pina's major flaw: the inability of artists to get out of their own way.
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Movieline by Stephanie Zacharek
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.