The Salt of the Earth (2014)
Genre: Documentary / Biography
Duration: 110 minuten
Alternative title: Le Sel de la Terre
Country:
France / Brazil / Italy
Directed by: Juliano Ribeiro Salgado and Wim Wenders
Stars: Sebastião Salgado, Wim Wenders and Juliano Ribeiro Salgado
IMDb score:
8,4 (25.210)
Releasedate: 29 August 2014
The Salt of the Earth plot
"A Journey With Sebastião Salgado"
For the last 40 years, photographer Sebastião Salgado has traveled on all continents. He has witnessed some of the most important events of our recent history. Such as international conflicts, hunger and exodus. This is a portrait of the Brazilian photographer, who spent eight years capturing uncivilized worlds for his project 'Genesis'.
Reviews & comments
eRCee
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- 13449 messages
- 1981 votes
I initially wondered why the movie has a 16+ rating, but that soon became painfully clear. Some images are not inferior to those from the Nazi death camps. In that respect, the reforestation in northeastern Brazil was a welcome change. In any case, a very special life of this man, Salgado, and of course his wife (as Wenders does not fail to make clear time and time again).
As for the lack of criticism: I see this film as a summary of Salgado's oeuvre, of all his photo series. Because the medium of film simply attracts a different audience than the people who buy photo books. This film is neither journalism nor a biopic. Salgado's personal life only came to the fore insofar as it was relevant to understand the photo projects, but fortunately certainly no more. Imagine if it had always been about that son with Down, then you might as well sit and watch RTL.
Recommended.
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yoda1992
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- 65 messages
- 1826 votes
Very nice images. However, I missed context about the origin of the photos. How is Salgado financed? How free is he in his choices? Why can he decide to travel for six months as soon as he returns to Brazil? Is money not a problem? And does his wife think everything is fine? I missed the context the most in Rwanda. Who did he take those pictures for, and who sent him? It looks like he was operating on his own. That seems a bit strange to me. How do you get so caught up in a war zone? Since the infrastructure was broken he must have had special routes to reach his goal. And what purpose is that actually? Collecting as much suffering as possible on image? This also says something about himself.
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james_cameron
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- 7060 messages
- 9827 votes
At the beginning of this documentary, director Wim Wenders suggests that we will get to know photographer Sebastião Salgado in a special way, but in the end this portrait is rather straightforward and not very in-depth. Which does not alter the fact that the photo reports that pass by are extremely powerful and above all confrontational. The photos taken in Ethiopia in the early 1980s are particularly impressive. This makes the documentary absolutely worthwhile, although it certainly could have been more.
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