Examined Life

Name: Examined Life
Genre: Documentary
Released: February 25, 2009
Duration: 87 min
Rating: 64

2009

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Zeitgeist Films | Release Date: February 25, 2009

Summary: In Examined Life, filmmaker Astra Taylor accompanies some of today’s most influential thinkers on a series of unique excursions through places and spaces that hold particular resonance for them and their ideas. (Zeitgeist Films)

Director: Astra Taylor

Genre(s): Documentary

Runtime: 87 min

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V.A. Musetto

Slovenian-born writer-teacher Slavoj Zizek, narrator of the movie "A Pervert's Guide to the Cinema," provides the most entertainment. Read full review

J. Hoberman

Ideas beam out from Astra Taylor's engaging new philoso-doc Examined Life; the viewer basks in the intelligence on-screen and, occasionally, soaks up the rays. Read full review

Andrew O'Hehir

By conducting her conversations in public spaces, and removing her interlocutors from desks and offices and book-lined studies and other appurtenances of intellectual authority, Taylor introduces a degree of playfulness and unpredictability that becomes the movie's M.O. Read full review

Rob Nelson

Stimulating film, enlivened by creative location shooting. Read full review

Wesley Morris

Over the course of the film's 88-minutes, Taylor cuts away to what's happening around her subjects (the unexamined life, I suppose). Perhaps she's attempting to make connections the thinkers don't. Read full review

Gary Goldstein

It won't be everybody's idea of entertainment but the heady documentary "Examined Life" provides a sound forum for an influential cross-section of professional thinkers to theorize on such weighty topics as life and death, politics, the environment and disabilities. Read full review

A.O. Scott

A modest, intermittently engaging film. Read full review

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