Reflection: A Walk with Water

I love this film! Emmett Brennan faces the climate crisis of our time and offers us a vital map of how to restore depleted ecosystems and desert places with water, acquirers, and living soil. There is much wisdom here, shared from First Nation People and specialists in conservation, land management, & restorative farming practices.

The film takes us on an odyssey into our relationship with water historically and helps us to envision new ways of working with water and her cycles through plants, trees, and sustainable farming.

This is a brilliant, hopeful, and moving film, artistically and beautifully rendered!

This film begins, well, at the beginning, with how life came to be on this planet. And from this jumping-off point, REFLECTION, carries a tone of necessary grandiosity, as it addresses, finally in a film, some of the root causes (And solutions) to the dire socio-ecological situation we as humanity find ourselves.

And this film manages to communicate these difficult, sometimes complex, and essential truths, wrapped in a cloaked of immense beauty, with a meditative style, tugged along by the feeling of being on a true quest, as we accompany the director and an entourage as they Walk along an emblematic "water story" for our times.

This is one of the best nature issue documentaries I've seen and as an aspiring filmmaker, taught me a lot about the magic of this art.

This film is so much more than an environmental documentary, it is a love letter to water and a promise to help our rivers continue flowing and lakes filling. I cannot recommend it enough. It gave me hope and excitement for the solutions that already exist! The music for the film is beautiful and combined with the vibrant imagery makes true poetry.

Trite, tawdry, obvious, and worst of all boring. Arrogantly pretention masquerading as art and activism. A waste of precious time unless you enjoy watching people exhibit their poor sad blistered, battered feet. So wasteful to walk, alongside a freakin' pipe! Horses fools. A zero star review would be way too high. By the way, the " music" could send water to slumber.

This film has stayed with me after watching days ago through Tribeca. What else is more important than water right now, and ever? I love that the film gives multiple examples of rural to urban solutions that are very attainable and replicable. We have all we need to solve the water crisis, and Emmett Brennan delivers the artistic inspiration to reorient ourselves towards progress and action. The music is beautiful, the cinematography is captivating, and the story telling is touching and real. Definitely watch the film!