75
I know of no documentary on a contemporary artist that conveys so much about the artist's work so lyrically and directly.
What are people saying?
What are critics saying?
100
Christian Science Monitor by David Sterritt
The film would be more informative if it put Goldsworthy into the broader context of modernist art movements. It's visually ravishing from start to finish, though.
100
San Francisco Chronicle by Edward Guthmann
Enchanting documentary that also serves as an animated gallery of Goldsworthy’s uniquely ephemeral art.
80
Fred Frith's lovely and subdued score is a perfect accompaniment.
90
Los Angeles Times by Kenneth Turan
Intoxicating and meditative by turns, helped by Fred Frith's minimalist score, this film opens a portal into a singular creative mind.
100
Baltimore Sun by Michael Sragow
In its own quiet, voluptuous way, Rivers and Tides, an unpretentiously brilliant documentary, uses the work of Scottish sculptor Andy Goldsworthy to open up the hidden drama of the natural universe.
88
Chicago Sun-Times by Roger Ebert
Watching this movie is like daydreaming.
80
The New York Times by Stephen Holden
As the film's images accumulate, the movie becomes a sustained and ultimately refreshing meditation on surrender to the idea of temporality.
88
Thoughtful and entertaining documentary.
83
Seattle Post-Intelligencer by William Arnold
Mesmerizing and curiously satisfying idyll that gradually, slyly maneuvers us into a whole new way of looking at the delicate relationship between man, art and Mother Nature.