Free the Mind

Name: Free the Mind
Genre: Adventure, Documentary
Released: May 3, 2013
Duration: 80 min
Rating: 51

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International Film Circuit | Release Date: May 3, 2013 | Not Rated

Summary: Brain scientist Professor Richard Davidson sets up his mind to conduct an unusual experiment: He will teach American war veterans and children meditation and yoga.

Director: Phie Ambo

Genre(s): Adventure, Documentary

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 80 min

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Gary Goldstein

May 17, 2013

There's something healing about simply watching Free the Mind, Danish filmmaker Phie Ambo's gentle, compassionate documentary. Read full review

Rob Humanick

May 2, 2013

Phie Ambo deftly captures her subjects' sense of paranoia and helplessness without encroaching on their brave candor. Read full review

Loren King

Oct 10, 2013

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. Read full review

Nicolas Rapold

May 2, 2013

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. Read full review

Inkoo Kang

Apr 30, 2013

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. Read full review

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