Mindwalk (1990)

User Rating:

7.3/10   

Director:

Bernt Amadeus Capra

Writers (WGA):

Bernt Amadeus Capra (story)
Floyd Byars (screenplay) ...

Release Date:

5 December 1991 (Germany)

Genre:

Drama

Tagline:

A film for passionate thinkers.

Plot:

A US politician (Sam Waterston) visits his poet friend (John Heard) in Mont. St. Michael, France. While...

Plot Keywords:

Poet | Politician | Conversation | Philosophy | Scientist

Awards:

1 nomination

Cast

Liv Ullmann	...	Sonia Hoffman
Sam Waterston	...	Jack Edwards
John Heard	...	Thomas Harriman
Ione Skye	...	Kit Hoffman
Emmanuel Montes	...	Romain
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Jean Boursin	...	Sacristan
Gabrielle Danchick	...	Tour Guide
Jeanne Van Phue	...	Tourist #1
Penny White	...	Tourist #2

Runtime:

112 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Sound Mix:

Dolby

Certification:

USA:PG

Filming Locations:

Mont Saint-Michel, Manche, France

Company:

Atlas

Trivia:

Thomas Harriman (John Heard) recited almost the entire poem "Los Enigmas" by Pablo Neruda. The last part of it says: "I want to tell you the ocean knows this, that life in its jewel boxes is endless as the sand, impossible to count, pure, and among the blood-colored grapes time has made the petal hard and shiny, made the jellyfish full of light and untied its knot, letting its musical threads fall from a horn of plenty made of infinite mother-of-pearl. I am nothing but the empty net which has gone on ahead of human eyes, dead in those darknesses, of fingers accustomed to the triangle, longitudes on the timid globe of an orange. I walked around as you do, investigating the endless star, and in my net, during the night, I woke up naked, the only thing caught, a fish trapped inside the wind."

Quotes:

Jack: An Italian premier, just was just after Mussolini, was asked, "Is it difficult to govern Italians?" He said, "Difficult. No, not difficult. Only useless."

Movie Connections:

References The Terminator (1984)

I love this movie

To watch this film you must abandon conventional wisdom about movies. This is not a film for people who watch Duece Bigalow and Armageddon. Not only is the movie an intelligent exploration into the human mind and science, politics, and poetry. But it is also an exploration into the mechanics of conversation and the meaning of life. The addition in the title of A Film For Passionate Thinkers rings completely true. The musical score is a relaxing piece. The conversation flows naturally from topic to topic, point to point person to person. I really like this movie.