Leaning Into the Wind (2018)
83%RT Audience Score: 68%
Awards & Nominations: 4 nominations
Leaning Into the Wind offers an alluring introduction to a brilliant artist’s utterly original life and work
Leaning Into the Wind: Andy Goldsworthy is like watching a nature documentary on acid. Goldsworthy’s art is so mesmerizing and trippy that you’ll feel like you’re on a journey through the wilderness with him. It’s like he’s a modern-day shaman communing with the spirits of the earth. If you’re looking for a film that will make you feel like you’re on a spiritual journey, this is it. Just make sure you’re not too high when you watch it, or you might never come back to reality.
Production Company(ies)
Mandeville Films, Walt Disney Pictures,
Distributor
Magnolia Pictures
Release Type
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MPAA / Certificate
Rated PG for brief language
Year of Release
2018
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Color:Color
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Sound mix:Dolby
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Runtime:1h 33m
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Country of origin:United States
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Release date:Release Date (Theaters): Mar 9, 2018 Limited
Release Date (Streaming): Jun 26, 2018
Genre(s)
Documentary
Keyword(s)
documentary, Andy Goldsworthy, sculptor, environmentalist, Thomas Riedelsheimer, Leslie Hills, Fred Frith, PG, box office, Magnolia Pictures, Leaning Into the Wind, art, nature, landscape, ephemeral, site-specific, San Francisco, St Louis, New England, Brazil, Scotland, France, critic reviews, Wendy Ide, Kevin Maher, Leslie Felperin, Steve Davis, Scott Marks, Ty Burr, Steven Prokopy, Felicia Feaster, Bedatri D Choudhury, Marisa Carpico, Rob Aldam, Alistair Harkness, audience score, runtime, producer, director, cinematographer, film editing, original music, English, brief language
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Thomas Riedelsheimer – Director, Cinematographer, Film Editing
Leslie Hills – Producer
Fred Frith – Original Music
Director(s)
Thomas Riedelsheimer
Writer(s)
NA
Producer(s)
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Film Festivals
Awards & Nominations
4 nominations
Academy Awards
All Critics (43) | Top Critics (15) | Fresh (42) | Rotten (1)
There is something almost pagan to the earth magic of Goldsworthy’s work; through his eyes we reconnect with an elemental quality in the world around us that, somewhere along the line, we lost the ability to see.
August 12, 2018
Wendy Ide
Observer (UK)
TOP CRITIC
This is a hypnotic and beguiling documentary portrait of the 62-year-old site-specific land artist Andy Goldsworthy… Sit back, relax and, in the most literal way possible, watch an artist at work.
August 10, 2018 | Rating: 4/5
Kevin Maher
Times (UK)
TOP CRITIC
A friend who watched this with me said that it’s the kind of film she’d like to see again when she’s dying. That pretty much nails its meditative, melancholy tone…
August 10, 2018 | Rating: 4/5
Leslie Felperin
Guardian
TOP CRITIC
It’s [Andy] Goldsworthy’s version of a snow angel, a simple transitory image that will make you feel oddly happy during its short, earthbound existence.
March 29, 2018 | Rating: 3/5
Steve Davis
Austin Chronicle
TOP CRITIC
No matter how vivid your home setup might be, it’s best to see this in a theatre.
March 22, 2018 | Rating: 3/5
Scott Marks
San Diego Reader
TOP CRITIC
There are moments where you may want to stop the film to assure yourself you’re seeing what you’re seeing, so disordering to the senses are Goldsworthy’s re-orderings of nature.
March 15, 2018 | Rating: 3.5/4
Ty Burr
Boston Globe
TOP CRITIC
The vulnerability on display is so raw and beautiful, you almost feel compelled to turn away.
June 3, 2020
Steven Prokopy
Third Coast Review
It is clear from watching Leaning Into the Wind that, for Goldsworthy, the labor, the action is as much a pleasure as the concept or the end result.
January 16, 2020
Felicia Feaster
Burnaway.org
Goldsworthy’s art is driven by an awareness of instability and mortality, which makes it a profound celebration of the present, of life.
January 8, 2019
Bedatri D. Choudhury
Hyperallergic
Leaning into the Wind: Andy Goldsworthy>, treads much of the same ground [as the first], but the environment and mankind’s relationship to it has changed a lot since 2001.
December 22, 2018 | Rating: 7/10
Marisa Carpico
The Pop Break
It’s more naturalistic than its predecessor, feeling at times like a memoir or a reassessment by a man reaching the autumnal years of his career.
October 30, 2018
Rob Aldam
Backseat Mafia
The ephemeral work of Scottish-based landscape artist Andy Goldsworthy makes film an ideal medium for documenting it.
August 9, 2018 | Rating: 4/5
Alistair Harkness
Scotsman…
Plot
Leaning Into the Wind follows British sculptor and environmentalist Andy Goldsworthy as he creates works of art using natural surroundings in various locations around the world.
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