The Unforeseen
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September 23, 2008
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- Synopsis
- First-time feature filmmaker Laura Dunn transforms an idea suggested to her by legendary director Terrence Malick into a cinematic reality with an ambitious documentary detailing the rise of a West Texas farm boy-turned-wildly successful real-estate ......
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- Director(s)
- Laura Dunn
- Distributor(s)
- Cinema Guild
- MPAA Rating
- Not Yet Rated
- Runtime
- 93 min.
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Variety | Robert KoehlerAdd Critic to Favorites
Observing locally and thinking globally, Laura Dunn's astonishing debut doc feature The Unforeseen is the kind of transformative viewing experience that has made the current period a golden age for nonfiction film.Read the full review
The Onion (A.V. Club) | Sam AdamsAdd Critic to Favorites
Although the parts of The Unforeseen dealing with the anti-development movement are pure go-team agitprop, Dunn lends the movie a lyrical cast by combining aerial shots of the transformed countryside with the voice of Wendell Berry, reading from his poem "Sabbaths."Read the full review
San Francisco Chronicle | Walter AddiegoAdd Critic to Favorites
What's unforeseen in Unforeseen, a superior documentary by Laura Dunn, are the consequences of a certain mind-set about mankind's relationship to the world and, finally, to itself.Read the full review
