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The Unforeseen
Directed by
Laura Dunn
Not Rated
2007
88m
Documentary
6.9
90%
70%
6.0
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A documentary about the development around Barton Springs in Austin, Texas, and the environment's unexpected response to human interference.
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Apple TV
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Cast of The Unforeseen
Wendell Berry
Self
Robert Redford
Self / Executive Producer
Ann Richards
Self
Laura Dunn
Director / Editor
Jef Sewell
Producer / Visual Effects Designer
Terrence Malick
Executive Producer
Arvo Pärt
Additional Soundtrack
The Unforeseen Ratings & Reviews
Seattle Times
John Hartl
A gorgeous, thoughtful film that is remarkably evenhanded in its treatment of the subject.
Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC)
Ken Hanke
Very thought-provoking and worth seeing.
Chicago Reader
J. R. Jones
One can see the hand of coproducer Terrence Malick in this gorgeous, lyrical documentary about ecological destruction in Austin, Texas.
Gay City News
Steve Erickson
While [director Laura] Dunn's style is closer to Terrence Malick than Paul Thomas Anderson, Bradley becomes a figure as tragic and memorable as the fictional Daniel Plainview in "There Will Be Blood."
The Stranger (Seattle, WA)
Annie Wagner
This enviro documentary has its pretensions (I could've done without Wendell Berry intoning poetry), but the 30-year drama it describes couldn't be more timely.
Austin Chronicle
Josh Rosenblatt
The result is an expansive and ambivalent testament to human ingenuity, human intransigence, and nature's endangered yet enduring power to move.
Houston Chronicle
Joe Leydon
By turns rapturously beautiful and unspeakably sad while considering the consequences of unchecked urban sprawl.
Los Angeles Times
Kenneth Turan
No one who sees this intriguing documentary will want to argue with reporter Greider when he forcefully insists, "We need a more mature regard for the future." We do indeed.
San Francisco Chronicle
Walter V. Addiego
[Cinematographer] Daniel has never shot a film for Malick, though you'd hardly guess so, given The Unforeseen's poetic and dreamy shots of nature that, like the images that open the Malick's "The Thin Red Line," hint at an Earthly paradise.
New York Magazine/Vulture
David Edelstein
The Unforeseen is a poetic and high-minded meditation on American developers' manifest destiny and the cancer it introduces into the natural world.
Boston Globe
Ty Burr
As frustrating as it is welcome.
The Hollywood Reporter
Frank Scheck
An unusually poetic and meditative eco-themed documentary, Laura Dunn's The Unforeseen is as beautiful as it is ultimately depressing.
Slant Magazine
Rob Humanick
Though fittingly directed by Laura Dunn, one can't help but feel the presence of producer Terrence Malick.
New York Times
Manohla Dargis
The Unforeseen explores the rights of man, the death of nature, the water below, the air above and all that going, going, gone green in between.
AV Club
Sam Adams
The movie wavers between Sundance-friendly issue film and spiritual reverie.
Entertainment Weekly
Lisa Schwarzbaum
Add The Unforeseen to the catalog of artfully produced nonfiction films that show how humans are screwing up the planet.
Village Voice
Jim Ridley
The movie's glacial pace and willingness to let its mind and eye wander that produces its spiritual and intellectual heft-not to mention its atypical visual splendor.
Salon.com
Andrew O'Hehir
A beautiful, soulful work about real estate development and sprawl, focused on Austin's beloved Barton Springs, and if you think that's impossible you haven't seen it.
Variety
Robert Koehler
The kind of transformative viewing experience that has made the current period a golden age for nonfiction film.
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