[Reellife] Manakamana can bring you manna...

[dave olsen]

I've never seen a film like this before.

A gondola takes people to and from the Manakamana Temple in Nepal. It's an 8.5 
minute ride to and fro and the camera is simply stationary in the car.

It starts slow - very slow, when you don't know what to expect - and warms up 
beautifully throughout...the concerto finale is divine and just in time for the 
Folk Fest!

The range of characters is impressive: older man and boy, older woman, 3 women, 
rockstars, goats, chickens, kittens and more Westernized folk.  The more 
Western, the more restless, the more technology obsessed and the less interested 
in the incredible scenery passing them by.

The subtitles are few and easy and when the tourists and goats appear, the 
subtitles disappear.

Perhaps the greatest strength of the film is the juxtaposition of cultures 
within an unceasing civilization; for instance, eating ice cream novelties seems 
to be not acceptable within Temple boundaries although dripping all over the 
place is (and is very funny).

Take a ride in the Nepalese hills and mountains and you may never think of 
gondolas the same way again.

Manakamana plays at the Cinematheque in downtown Vancouver (1131 Howe Street):

Thursday (tonight!), June 26, 2014 @ 8:30pm
Sunday, June 29, 2014 @ 6:30pm
Monday, June 30, 2014 @ 8:30pm
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Warmly,
dave/
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