Walking on Water

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Walking on Water

2019

1h 40m

Documentary

Adventure

Comedy

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88%

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32 Reviews

89%

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Fewer than 50 Ratings

Celebrated artist Christo consummates his huge and logistically complex installation "The Floating Piers" on Italy's Lake Iseo.

Critics Consensus

Walking on Water tracks the personal and professional journey of an artist emerging from a painful chapter to forge ahead on his creative path.

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Ben Sachs

Chicago Reader

03/16/2020

Curiously artless for a movie about the art world.

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Matthew Lickona

San Diego Reader

07/19/2019

2/5

The film does what it apparently sets out to do, which is to give some account of two statements Christo makes to a group of schoolchildren early on in the proceedings: "I love real things," and, "When you are an artist, you are all the time artist."

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Mark Feeney

Boston Globe

06/07/2019

3/4

There's some dry in "Walking on Water," though not much. There's a fair amount of wet. As for joy, that there is in abundance.

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Katie Duggan

TAKE ONE Magazine

07/27/2020

Fitting with Christo's proclamation, the documentary is not just an account of the creation of one work, but a glimpse into the creative madness of living a life that is entirely devoted to art.

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Michael J. Casey

Michael J. Cinema

09/09/2019

"There's not moment you are not an artist," Christo says. It also appears there is no moment when Christo isn't an overbearing ass.

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Robert Denerstein

Denerstein Unleashed

06/21/2019

Director Andrey Paounov's documentary falls short...we don't get much by way of explanation about how all this was done, how materials were selected -- and in some cases -- even what materials were used.

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11/11/2020

A very refreshing art documentary

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06/27/2019

Artist struggles to complete massive project!

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06/20/2019

Amazing character portrait! Captures the frustration and absurdity and humor inherent in the pursuit of such an enormously ambitious passion project.

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06/09/2019

Fascinating, observational portrait of an artist and what it takes to make it art.

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05/20/2019

Great film about a great artist! A must see!

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Synopsis

Celebrated artist Christo consummates his huge and logistically complex installation "The Floating Piers" on Italy's Lake Iseo.

Director: Andrey Paounov
Producer: Izabella Tzenkova, Valeria Giampietro
Distributor: Kino Lorber
Genre: Documentary, Adventure, Comedy
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): May 1, 2019, Limited
Release Date (Streaming): Aug 13, 2019
Box Office (Gross USA): $98.4K
Runtime: 1h 40m
Aspect Ratio: Flat (1.85:1)