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'Highbrow' might be the best way to sum it all up. Interesting and stimulating, if not always successful.
What are people saying?
What are critics saying?
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The headiest, head-scratching-est, damnedest, most demanding movie opening this week in New York, The Ister could be simply described as a philosophical travelogue.
50
San Francisco Chronicle by John McMurtrie
A film about profound ideas deserved more imagination.
90
Chicago Reader by Jonathan Rosenbaum
Unprecedented in its intellectual ambition, this is endlessly stimulating; it probably tries for too much, but it shames many other contemporary essays that try for too little.
80
Tyro helmers David Barison and Daniel Ross have sunk their teeth into a heady intellectual stew, and results are invigorating thanks to the filmmakers' inspired linkage of images and ideas and commentaries from three of the world's leading philosophers.