Senna (2011)
Nov/06/2011 Filed in: Documentary
I stumbled across this excellent video on NetFlix Streaming and it has wound up becoming one of my all-time favorite documentaries. An absolutely riveting and moving film.
VIEW DATE: 1/5/2012
MY RATING: ★★★★★
VENUE: Netflix Streaming
VIEW DATE: 1/5/2012
MY RATING: ★★★★★
VENUE: Netflix Streaming
This is a superbly crafted documentary that manages to tell a moving and compelling story with remarkable restraint. It is a testament to the Director and Editor's skills that they are able to create a cohesive story line, convey subtle emotions and paint vivid characters and relationships while using only historical footage and with no "talking head" interviews at all.
As a professional video editor myself, I found this to be an astonishing feat the likes of which I've never really seen before. There are no overarching VO helping us to understand the political nuances or emotional tension in a scene and no cuts to interviews that interpret or reinterpret the scenes. In this regard, it is a work that never insults the intelligence and leaves an even more favorable impression because history and the facts speak quite eloquently for themselves.
Like many reviewers here, I am not a racing aficionado and frankly had only the most cursory awareness of Senna and the F1 racing world, but I am certainly a fan of high-quality filmmaking and this is one of the finest documentaries I've ever seen. I consider it a work of true genius and any student of producing or editing should carefully study and learn from this stunningly beautiful work. It is a remarkably intelligent and powerful film. Bravo.
If you wish to comment, my (duplicate) Amazon review is located here.
As a professional video editor myself, I found this to be an astonishing feat the likes of which I've never really seen before. There are no overarching VO helping us to understand the political nuances or emotional tension in a scene and no cuts to interviews that interpret or reinterpret the scenes. In this regard, it is a work that never insults the intelligence and leaves an even more favorable impression because history and the facts speak quite eloquently for themselves.
Like many reviewers here, I am not a racing aficionado and frankly had only the most cursory awareness of Senna and the F1 racing world, but I am certainly a fan of high-quality filmmaking and this is one of the finest documentaries I've ever seen. I consider it a work of true genius and any student of producing or editing should carefully study and learn from this stunningly beautiful work. It is a remarkably intelligent and powerful film. Bravo.
If you wish to comment, my (duplicate) Amazon review is located here.
