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Throw Down Your Heart
Directed by
Sascha Paladino
Not Rated
2008
1h 37m
Documentary
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7.8
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A film crew follows the well-known banjo player Bela Fleck on his travels to Africa, where he learns about the instrument's origins.
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Cast of Throw Down Your Heart
Béla Fleck
Self
Sascha Paladino
Director / Producer
Throw Down Your Heart Ratings & Reviews
From the Front Row
Mattie Lucas
As a whole the film often feels more like a PBS special than a theatrical documentary, but it's hard to deny the film's charms.
Seattle Times
Ted Fry
This is an honest journey into discovery that reveals the connection music brings between cultures where commonality is not always easy to find.
Oregonian
Stan Hall
As a record of a musical experiment, Sascha Paladino's film is a feast of stirring sounds and sights.
Boston Phoenix
Chris Faraone
If Fleck weren't such a gracious soul chasing the spirit of Sankofa, this could have been an exercise in exploitation of Graceland-ian proportions. But that's hardly the case on his magical musical mystery tour.
Boston Globe
Laura Bennett
Fleck is an ideal protagonist for a film about the adhesive power of music and inadequacy of speech. Even as the plot sags and he grasps clumsily for words, his fingers on the strings are almost momentum enough.
Film-Forward.com
Nora Lee Mandel
Fleck speaks more with his fingers than in conversation, and the pure musician-to-musician communications joyfully cross language barriers and instrument differences.
Projection Booth
Rob Humanick
Unbegrudgingly hands itself over to the music of its chosen subjects.
SpoutBlog
Karina Longworth
A beautiful illustration of powerlessness in the face of art.
NYC Movie Guru
Avi Offer
It's filled with lively, soulful musical performances that keeps you mostly compelled, but it eventually becomes somewhat dull and lacks enough profound insights, which ultimately leaves you feeling underwhelmed.
New York Post
The movie is at least 20 minutes too long. By the time Fleck gets to the final stop, Mali, the film, directed by Sascha Paladino (a half-brother of Fleck), has worn out its welcome.
Film Journal International
Rex Roberts
Roll up, roll up, for Béla Fleck's harmonious heritage tour, satisfaction (more or less) guaranteed.
New York Times
Stephen Holden
When Ms. Sangare sings a heartbreaking lament of "a worried songbird" searching for her father, you don't need to know the language to be gripped by the force of her cry.
Film Threat
Phil Hall
Fans of world music will enjoy the vibrant and spontaneous performances gathered here.
Spirituality & Practice
Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat
A musical adventure that follows an American banjo player to Africa where he discovers the power of music to bring people of very different cultures together.
Variety
Joe Leydon
Fleck comes across as respectfully curious and eagerly collaborative while exploring the roots of his favorite musical instrument.
Village Voice
Aaron Hillis
All the jams are fabulously stirring but not sappy, especially when Fleck duels with a Gambian man on a three-string akonting (forefather to the banjo), but there's nothing more to the film.
Slant Magazine
Joseph Jon Lanthier
The film fails as a personal diary due to Fleck's unflappable aloofness, and the performance footage is rendered unsatisfying by frequent interjections of expository material or cutaways to seaside B-roll that seems photographed for tourist brochures.
Kansas City Star
Timothy Finn
It reminds us that, in some of the most remote places in the world, people make beautiful music not as a means to fame and fortune but for a daily source of love and nourishment, like family, food and prayer.
Boxoffice Magazine
Sara Maria Vizcarrondo
There's tragedy lurking behind every story, but also a necessity that transforms mere histories into something sacred.
San Francisco Chronicle
Reyhan Harmanci
It's an entertaining journey, and director Sascha Paladino injects humor and pathos into the musical sequences.
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