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The Salt of the Earth
Directed by
Juliano Ribeiro Salgado
and
Wim Wenders
PG-13
2014
1h 50m
Documentary
,
Biography
,
and more
8.4
94%
90%
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The life and work of photographer Sebastião Salgado, who has spent forty years documenting societies in hidden corners of the world.
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Cast of The Salt of the Earth
Sebastião Salgado
Self
Wim Wenders
Self
Juliano Ribeiro Salgado
Self
Hugo Barbier
Self
Lélia Wanick Salgado
Self
Jacques Barthélémy
Self
Régis Muller
Self
João Pessoa Mattos
Self
Leny Wanick Mattos
Self
Maria Teresa Salgado Rocha Bastos
Self
Rodrigo Ribeiro Salgado
Self
The Salt of the Earth Ratings & Reviews
San Diego Reader
Matthew Lickona
The film takes its time, and even seems to meander in places. But in retrospect, the path becomes clear: winding steadily towards home.
Philadelphia Inquirer
Tirdad Derakhshani
The Salt of the Earth, has the power to draw you into its world, transfix, and perhaps eventually transform you.
Seattle Times
John Hartl
The authenticity and artistry of the images in "The Salt of the Earth" cannot be denied. In any context, they'd be unforgettable.
Newsday
John Anderson
Stunning imagery and a stirring story, about Sebastiao Salgado and his 40-odd years of shooting global catastrophe.
Arizona Republic
Bill Goodykoontz
It is a fascinating film, and if it skimps somewhat on the moral complications of this kind of art, it holds nothing back in terms of volume: Image after image grabs our eye and often grips our throat.
Chicago Sun-Times
Bill Stamets
This moving, Oscar-nominated documentary is an odyssey of a tragic observer.
Austin Chronicle
Josh Kupecki
The Salt of the Earth travels to the heart of darkness, but thankfully comes out on the other side and leaves you with a hopefulness that no matter what kind of madness and repression happen in the world, there is still hope for humanity.
Chicago Reader
J. R. Jones
For this career-spanning documentary, director Wim Wenders accompanies the photographer on his travels, the color documentary footage punctuated by Salgados's stunning, minutely detailed black-and-white images.
Christian Science Monitor
Peter Rainer
Most of the photographs on view in The Salt of the Earth bear witness to great suffering, and what they exalt is not the photographer's eye but the fearful humanity that binds us all.
NPR
Ella Taylor
It looks lovely, yet Wenders' worshipful account of Salgado the man feels like a tale half told.
Washington Post
Ann Hornaday
There are just as many breathtaking moments to be found in the film as there are in the work it's about.
Chicago Tribune
Michael Phillips
Is what we see grief porn or an epic, careerlong study in the best and worst we can find on Earth? See the film and decide for yourself.
The Dissolve
Scott Tobias
In lesser hands, The Salt Of The Earth could have been indistinguishable from a magazine or online multimedia profile, with no specific life as a film.
Entertainment Weekly
Chris Nashawaty
With this heartbreaking yet hopeful new documentary about his life's work, Salgado shares the stories behind these split-second black-and-white moments, giving them even more dimension.
New York Magazine/Vulture
Bilge Ebiri
Given this fractured-three-ways perspective, it's surprising how smoothly The Salt of the Earth moves, how gracefully it switches back and forth between the personal and the objective.
RogerEbert.com
Peter Sobczynski
Wenders trains his camera on photographer Sebastiao Salgado and the result, though not without flaws, is an invigorating and interesting observation of the man, his work and the entire medium of photography.
NPR
Bob Mondello
Wenders, hoping to illuminate not just these images but the man who made them, has found an intriguing way to capture both Salgado and his work simultaneously.
Wall Street Journal
Joe Morgenstern
The film is suffused with his anguish over the state of our species, and our planet. Yet it ends with a change of heart and a turn of events that make a plausible case for hope.
AV Club
Keith Uhlich
The film is, in large part, a story of an artist rediscovering his muse.
New York Post
Sara Stewart
Many of the images - and Salgado's accounts of taking them - are as soul-shattering as they are breathtaking.
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