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Waste Land

Name: Waste Land
Genre: Documentary
Released: 2010-01-24
Duration: 90 min
Rating: 7.6

★ 7,6 /10 (127 Votes)

2010 EN 90 min

Overview

An uplifting feature documentary highlighting the transformative power of art and the beauty of the human spirit. Top-selling contemporary artist Vik Muniz takes us on an emotional journey from Jardim Gramacho, the world's largest landfill on the outskirts of Rio de Janeiro, to the heights of international art stardom. Vik collaborates with the brilliant catadores, pickers of recyclable materials, true Shakespearean characters who live and work in the garbage quoting Machiavelli and showing us how to recycle ourselves.

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Release date

24/01/2010

Votes

127

Popularity

1.7

What happens in the world's largest trash city will transform you.

Genres

Documentary

Status

Released

Language

Runtime

90 min

Budget

$1,500,000

Revenue

$187,716

Website

www.wastelandmovie.com

Vik Muniz

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Nominated for best documentary for the Academy in 2012. I don't know if I could be wrong but some of the the reviews here are very negative from those who live in Brazil. The point of view is valid from what people say negatively about documentaries, but I also agree with another aspect - in the same way that the impact of knowing that your painting is worth so much more than you as a person in a landfill, it also shows the perspective that things can be different if you believe and fight for it, no matter how small the fight - growing in literacy, courses, and other things that I don't thi…

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