Finding Joe

Name: Finding Joe
Genre: Documentary
Released: September 30, 2011
Duration: 80 min
Rating: 45

2011

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Balcony Releasing | Release Date: September 30, 2011 | Not Rated

Summary: Finding Joe is an exploration of famed Mythologist Joseph Campbell’s studies and their continuing impact on our culture. Through interviews with visionaries from a variety of fields interwoven with enactments of classic tales by a sweet and motley group of kids, the film navigates the stages of what Campbell dubbed The Hero’s Journey: theFinding Joe is an exploration of famed Mythologist Joseph Campbell’s studies and their continuing impact on our culture. Through interviews with visionaries from a variety of fields interwoven with enactments of classic tales by a sweet and motley group of kids, the film navigates the stages of what Campbell dubbed The Hero’s Journey: the challenges, the fears, the dragons, the battles, and the return home as a changed person. Rooted in deeply personal accounts and timeless stories, Finding Joe shows how Campbell’s work is relevant and essential in today’s world and how it provides a narrative for how to live a fully realized life—or as Campbell would simply state, how to “follow your bliss”. (Balcony Releasing)… Expand

Director: Patrick Takaya Solomon

Genre(s): Documentary

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 80 min

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Tasha Robinson

Sep 28, 2011

Finding Joe feels like a homemade quilt: It's warm and comforting, but visually busy, with a repeating pattern that some will find stuffy and overwhelming. Read full review

Kirk Honeycutt

Sep 27, 2011

Everyone's comments are thoughtful and articulate but everyone stays "on message" so steadfastly that no dialogue ever ensues. It's 20 people giving the same lecture. Read full review

Kevin Thomas

Sep 29, 2011

Finding Joe is so centered on the self-realization of the individual that it provokes one to contemplate the millions of oppressed, imperiled people that haven't the luxury of pursuing such an inner quest. Read full review

Dennis Harvey

Oct 4, 2011

Campbell's career and influence encompass much wider fields of interest than are considered here, despite the picture's colorful surface. Narrowing its focus to the simplest inspirational gist, with zero insight into the man behind it, Finding Joe winds up seeming like an infomercial for a personal-growth program. Read full review

Walter Addiego

Oct 13, 2011

Campbell's admirers will probably enjoy the documentary, but I don't think it will do much for anyone else. Read full review

Chuck Bowen

Sep 27, 2011

Finding Joe maintains that every person should, as Joseph Campbell wrote, "find your bliss," a potentially valuable nugget of wisdom that this film manages to reduce to 80 minutes of celebs giving themselves hugs. Read full review

Richard Nilsen

Oct 20, 2011

It comprises some 20 talking heads, each pretty much saying the same thing, interspersed with film of children dressed up as mythical heroes, enacting the stages of the "hero's journey." Read full review

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