Onlookers

Name: Onlookers
Genre: Documentary
Released: February 16, 2024
Duration: 72 min
Rating: 49

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| Release Date: February 16, 2024 | Not Rated

Summary: Onlookers offers a visually striking, immersive meditation on travel and tourism in Laos, reflecting on how we all live as observers. Traversing the country's dusty roads and tranquil rivers, we watch as elaborate painterly tableaus unfold, revealing the whimsical and at times disruptive interweaving of locals and foreigners in rest andOnlookers offers a visually striking, immersive meditation on travel and tourism in Laos, reflecting on how we all live as observers. Traversing the country's dusty roads and tranquil rivers, we watch as elaborate painterly tableaus unfold, revealing the whimsical and at times disruptive interweaving of locals and foreigners in rest and play. Drawn to spectacle, tourists swarm to magnificent Buddhist temples, the ordered rituals of monks, and sites of dazzling natural beauty, then recede like a passing tide, leaving Laotians to continue with their daily lives. Onlookers transports viewers on a sensorial journey of deep looking and listening, inviting audiences to reflect on their own modes of tourism, while asking the looming existential questions: Why do we travel? What do we seek?… Expand

Director: Kimi Takesue

Genre(s): Documentary

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 72 min

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Benjamin Franz

Feb 15, 2024

Onlookers is a novel exercise in audio and visual presentation. Natural light, loads of wild sound, and the environment of Laos are presented plainly with zero artifices or embellishments. If you’re looking for a new kind of travel film, this is for you. Read full review

RogerEbert.com Glenn Kenny

Feb 16, 2024

On its surface, “Onlookers” is a movie that can be described very simply. For about an hour and twenty minutes, a series of very neatly composed shots depict natives of Laos and tourists observing a variety of sights and sites. Read full review

The Film Stage C.J. Prince

Feb 15, 2024

Onlookers lacks specificity in its execution, making for a plodding experience across a short runtime. Read full review

Ben Kenigsberg

Feb 15, 2024

This is a concept in search of a movie, and an academic exercise that doesn’t give observers much to work with. Read full review

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