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  Review by Salvador Amores 1

  Johan van der Keuken es quizá el documentalista más libre de todos porque, a diferencia de las otras estrellas del documental, aboga por una actitud clásica: sabe diferenciar a las cosas y a los seres* y por ello encuentra soluciones distintas cada vez. Es un cineasta, como Hitchcock (a quien admira muchísimo, como lo dice en el retrato que le dedicó Thierry Nouel), de la heterogeneidad, que comprende que la verdadera écriture cinematographique no reside en características superficiales como decidir filmar todo de la misma manera, sino en la noción de que lo que llamamos comúnmente "estilo", como dijera Cézanne, reside en "sentir justo y realizar plenamente"**.

  Van der Keuken, en sus mejores películas, como es el caso de The…

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  Review by Rosie Lighters ★★★

  It is hard to dislike this movie because the director once again brings people from different sizes and places in life together of all sorts of people and all colors and all religions and of course it is remarkable and understandably admirable but at the same hand it is all people complaining about poverty and all that s*** without really doing anything that underneath it all lies very left-wing message for if they wanted to do something about it they be right-wing and actually doing something; but no here again they complain that life isn't good blah blah blah blah and they expect the other person to solve that problems instead of making the effort themselves. Just as what happened…

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  Review by Abdallah ★★★½

  I'm thinking it's hard to touch the reality.

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  Review by Lencho of the Apes ★★★

  It's good journalism, and there's pretty pictures to look at, but there's no through-line here to hold things together or give the movie a reason to exist. "Where I went on my summer vacation and interrogated the conditions of working-class struggle" doesn't cut it for me.

  Nevertheless, some of the details were quite interesting. Amsterdam squat culture! Afro-Italian issues! (Etc...)