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Holiday Concert: with duo pianists Anthony and Joseph Parratore, Gardner Museum...
...Gardner concentrates particularly on three individuals: a priest, a healer, and a fairly eccentric distributor of sacred fire. Keeping them straight, however, presents a somewhat difficult task--an almost unavoidable weakness in preserving the integrity of the cinema verite...
...Benares in the past 10 years has been connected to the idea that religion, which always perplexed me by its seeming remoteness, can be understood as a way of dealing with certain matters, in particular with what my sister Isabella called in one of her poems, 'it."' --Robert Gardner...
Forest of Bliss, a portrait of the holy Hindu city of Benares, India, is the brainchild of Harvard film professor Robert Gardner, considered by many to be the most important anthropological filmmakers of our time. The documentary has no subtitles, no musical soundtrack, no voice-over commentary--only the insistent din of a city at work, a city whose main function concerns the burial of the dead...
...Although Gardner filmed Forest of Bliss over a 10-week span (concealing his camera in a green garbage bag so as not to attract the curious masses), he compressed his shots into a single day's medley, sunrise to exquisite sunrise. During the moments after the opening sunrise, we feel baffled, in need of explication. When the sun rises once again, we have experienced what Gardner refers to as "it" and we begin to understand...