One Day Pina Asked...

An excellent companion piece to Wim Wenders' terrific "Pina". Both Wenders and Akerman, two of our best and most iconoclastic filmmakers take very different approaches to Pina Bausch's amazing choreography. Wenders film, made nearly 30 years later is longer and far more visually spectacular, using 3-D images to give us the full sense of space in Bausch's dances. But Akerman's is just as valuable.In this frustratingly short (1 hour), intimate documentary, she films most of the 'dances' in medium and even close shots, which seems like a bizarre approach to dance, until you realize how much of Bausch's work is also theater, relying on her dancers to also be excellent actors (something discussed briefly in the film). By getting in close, Akerman emphasizes the theatrical and dramatic elements in the works, which are often both funny and deeply moving.Very much worth seeing, and finally on DVD from Icarus Films.

I had an VHS tape of this off Bravo from many years ago. I wasn't expecting the images in this DVD to be much better, but they are. And the colors! The old VHS is faded in comparison. The film itself is a great introduction to Pina's work, especially her earlier pieces which attracted all the attention in the first place. I miss the quiet, British-accented voice-over of the VHS edition, but here we get subtitles. I'm also a fan of Chantal Akerman so with this DVD you get two great artists for the price of one. I asked Pina what it was like to work with Ms. Akerman. She just smiled and shook her head. I gather they didn't get along.

A great review of the work of the great choreographer Pina Busch. The dancer are of course beautiful, the ddance is challenging and it is achingly beautiful

I won't write about the movie itself--it is superb. Unfortunately, here I am as one of those party poopers who degrade fine books and movies by writing about the defects of the physical products. Now I do understand them.I bought this copy as a present. The disk does not look "new" as advertised. The box is badly bent and the disk is loose because the holders are not there. Neither are there liner notes.

I like the work of both , so to have them together in this documentary was a real treat!

If you like abstract/modern dance, you'll like this

Excellent!

Ok

Tout va bien.

Pas du tout satisfaite évidemment et j'ai renvoyé le CD incompatible.Toujours aussi choquée que les films d'Akermann soient si mal édités et distribués.