Free the Mind
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May 17, 2013
70
There's something healing about simply watching Free the Mind, Danish filmmaker Phie Ambo's gentle, compassionate documentary.
Oct 10, 2013
63
Though perhaps more suited to PBS or classrooms than to movie screens, the documentary is engrossing and just may encourage more people to look less to pharmacology for answers and more within.
May 2, 2013
63
Phie Ambo deftly captures her subjects' sense of paranoia and helplessness without encroaching on their brave candor.
May 2, 2013
50
Ms. Ambo communicates the notion of compassion and calm as something teachable, but perhaps feeling already convinced, she’s less ambitious as a filmmaker about taking her subject and her portraits to another level.
Apr 30, 2013
30
Ambo's argument is frayed by her arbitrary recommendations of meditation as a panacea for unrelated psychological difficulties. Even more baffling, the director neglects to define this culturally and geographically variable practice with any exactitude.
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Production Company:
- Danmarks Radio (DR)
- Making Movies
- Special Broadcasting Service (SBS)
- Sveriges Television (SVT)
- Vrijzinnig Protestantse Radio Omroep (VPRO)
- Yleisradio (YLE)
Release Date:May 3, 2013
Duration:1 h 20 m
Tagline:Can you rewire the brain just by taking a breath?
