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07/21/05
Confessions of a Burning Man (2003)
32 %
Reviews Counted: 19 Fresh: 6 Rotten:13 Average Rating: 4.8/10
Genre: Education/General Interest
Director: Paul Barnett
Reviews
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...tries to personalize the event by focusing on three participants, who unfortunately happen to be rather boring.
05/14/04
Consider it your all-access pass to the imaginative desert maelstrom without the nasty sunburn or sand in your hair.
05/13/04
The film's strength is in its ability to bring the experience of Burning Man to its audience, evoking not only the heat, dust and fatigue, but the sheer awe of its enormousness and generosity of spirit.
05/13/04
Top Critic
Reduces a complex social environment to a trifling spectacle of fakery, peopled by faux-hemians who offer up trivial confessions as if they're earth-shattering.
05/12/04
Fails to convey what brings thousands of people to this place every year. Guess you had to be there.
04/23/04
Maybe it does as well as anyone could with this rambunctious but extravagantly self-indulgent festival; unfortunately, that isn't much.
03/29/04
There are interesting characters in this documentary, but unfortunately, it's not the people that are the focus of the film.
03/26/04
I emerged charmed by some characters, a bit more informed than before about Burning Man as a whole, but decidedly non-immersed.
03/25/04
It's refreshing to see people who willingly and eagerly forego commerce to use their time making art and seeking spiritual meaning.
03/03/04
Burnett and Lee's graceful, sympathetic documentary focuses on participants who embody Burning Man's ideals without being blind to the opportunists and party animals it inevitably attracts.
02/27/04
An incoherent documentary about the annual Burning Man arts festival in the northern Nevada desert.
02/26/04
Top Critic
Less sentiment and more peculiarity would have limned a richer, though probably less audition-tape-worthy, reflection of Burning Man's 25,000-strong community of the absurd.
02/24/04
All 87 minutes of the film seem like B-roll footage that could be used as an introduction to a cool film about Burning Man, not the film itself.
01/10/04
One supposes and hopes that this celebration in the wilderness isn't as boring as the documentary about it.
10/23/03
While Confession of a Burning Man manages to accurately capture the Burning Man spirit, it falls just short of capturing the entire Burning Man experience.
10/01/03
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