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Reviews Counted:28
Fresh:22
Rotten:6
Average Rating:6.7/10
Consensus: Glastonbury is formless and scattershot, and successful in capturing the festival's raw, wild energy.
Theatrical Release:14-04-2006
Synopsis: Glastonbury is now the best known, longest running and most pre-eminent music festival in the world. Fuelled by a staggering range of music, the movie will embrace the spirit, characters and... [More]
A frenetic cut-and-paste job that is free of voiceover, commentary or even titles to introduce interviewees. Such calculated vagueness works, and the lingering impression is of a messy and hedonistic free-for-all.
Top CriticA magical documentary recounting the 35 tumultuous years of the Glastonbury Music Festival, this is an exhilarating experience.
Top CriticA Herculean task executed with wit, intelligence and unmistakable passion. The next best thing to being there.
Top CriticFeatures some beautiful and epic performances that are enough, on their own, to entertain.
This is entertaining stuff, though and there's a big laugh when a hippy juggling flaming torches sets fire to himself.
Top CriticCompulsive viewing, but it feels far too long.
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Combining images of 30 years of politics, music, self-expression and alternative living, it's a vibrant, if inevitably scattered, film that manages to tread the fine line between chronicling the festival and exploiting it.
An alternately rousing and repetitive 138-minute documentary spanning four decades of the Glastonbury Festival.
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The sense of total immersion is breathlessly complete.
... captures the open-air rock festival experience more completely than any previous film of its kind.
... as muddy as Yasgur's farm back in the day.
For all the posers with light sticks and piercings, there are moments of Dada-esque beauty, not to mention some great music from Tinariwen, Bjork, David Bowie and the late, great Joe Strummer.
What [Temple] does...is immerse his audience in the spirit of the festival with ingenious editing that shows the Glastonbury Festival as nothing short of a geographically bound society that just happens to exist for a few days a year.
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While the movie will clarify whether or not the fest is for you, you never feel like you're actually there.
The movie's 135 minutes [feels] long. But the length is a product of [director] Temple's desire to cram in as much as he can. Despite the festival's drawbacks, it's obvious Temple loves everything about it. Even Coldplay.
The portrait is spectacular and inclusive, if sometimes a bit overwhelming and confusing.
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