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Manakamana
Directed by
Pacho Velez
,
Stephanie Spray
Not Rated
2013
1h 58m
Documentary
6.5
96%
61%
7.5
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A documentary about a group of pilgrims who travel to Nepal to worship at the legendary Manakamana temple.
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Cast of Manakamana
Chabbi Lal Gandharba
Himself
Amish Gandharba
Himself
Bindu Gayek
Herself
Narayan Gayek
Himself
Gopika Gayek
Herself
Khim Kumari Gayek
Herself
Chet Kumari Gayek
Herself
Hom Kumari Gayek
Herself
Simen Pariyar
Himself
Anil Paija
Himself
Saroj Gandharba
Himself
Pacho Velez
Director / Director Of Photography / Editor
Stephanie Spray
Director / Screenplay / Editor
Lucien Castaing-Taylor
Producer
Véréna Paravel
Producer
Manakamana Ratings & Reviews
The New York Review of Books
J. Hoberman
Hypnotic and serene.
The Film Stage
Peter Labuza
It's hard to describe the passions and joys that Manakamana manages to cohere while celebrating its world.
Laramie Movie Scope
Robert Roten
This is an interesting experiment as a movie, but I don't think it is a terribly successful one. It takes a lot of patience to sit through the dull bits, where nothing much happens, to get to the more interesting parts.
Contactmusic.com
Rich Cline
A gimmicky observation of life in Nepal, this is one of those documentaries that offers the audience an experience rather than any actual information.
LarsenOnFilm
Josh Larsen
A purifying moviegoing experience...
Oregonian
Marc Mohan
A must-see, especially in a theater, where the lack of distractions makes it even more mesmerizing, a cinematic Rorschach test that lets you interpret the expressions on faces from halfway around the world.
Los Angeles Times
Kenneth Turan
"Manakamana" is simple in conception, but the reactions it evokes in viewers will be complex and multifaceted.
Boston Globe
Ty Burr
"Manakamana" is a haunting experience, one that requires patience (and then some) but that offers spiritual, philosophical, and aesthetic rewards beyond the immediate power of words to describe.
Film Comment Magazine
Jonathan Romney
Manakamana is a travel film that's not about the ride, but the riders. Ourselves included, of course.
The New Yorker
Richard Brody
The directors, Pacho Velez (who did the camera work) and Stephanie Spray (who recorded the sound), condense world history into the confined space of a glassed-in bubble.
New York Times
Manohla Dargis
By focusing on such a narrow slice of Nepali life, Ms. Spray and Mr. Velez have ceded any totalizing claim on the truth and instead settled for a perfect incompleteness.
NPR
Mark Jenkins
Manakamana doesn't answer any questions, yet makes its point: Nepal, like the rest of our planet, is a picturesque but far from peaceable kingdom.
New York Magazine/Vulture
Bilge Ebiri
As a theatrical experience, Manakamana is spellbinding. But it's a complex spell ...
Village Voice
Calum Marsh
I've never seen anything like it.
The Dissolve
Noel Murray
Manakamana is both calming and imagination-sparking, forcing viewers to look at human faces for 10-minute stretches, whether those faces are talking excitedly or quietly looking around.
Slant Magazine
Clayton Dillard
Filmmakers Stephanie Spray and Pacho Velez insist that altered spectatorship, particularly patience and duration, is the foundation of cinematic edification.
Paste Magazine
Tim Grierson
If "Leviathan" showed us the primal terror of everyday life, this new film is a warm hug, a salute to our shared humanity.
AV Club
A.A. Dowd
A repetitive but sometimes beguiling documentary produced by the directors of Leviathan,
IndieWire
Eric Kohn
"Manakamana" says as much about the erosion of patience as it does about the value of holding onto it.
Birth.Movies.Death.
Jordan Hoffman
It takes a certain kind of alchemy to present an uninterrupted 8-and-a-half minute shot of a goat's anal canal and call it entertainment.
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