WasAnnon Slow pace in the most part of the movie.

SteinMo What a freaking movie. So many twists and turns. Absolutely intense from start to finish.

Beulah Bram A film of deceptively outspoken contemporary relevance, this is cinema at its most alert, alarming and alive.

Kimball Exactly the movie you think it is, but not the movie you want it to be.

Horst in Translation (filmreviews@web.de) "Pina" is a German, 100-minute movie from 4 years ago. It was nominated at the BAFTAs (Foreign Language Film) and Oscars (Documentary) and was famous filmmaker Wim Wenders' tribute to the late dancer and dance choreographer Pina Bausch. Wenders held the eulogy at her funeral, so I assume the two were friends and pretty close. The film basically consists of interviews with Bausch, her dancers and also many dance scenes. It is probably Wenders' most known work in recent years, especially with the awards recognition it received.Unfortunately, as much as I like the director, I cannot say I was too impressed here. It is not a film that got me interested in the multi-layered world of dancing. You already need to have a profound interest before watching in order to appreciate this film or, in a best-case-scenario, either be a dancer himself or have a personal connection to Bausch. I must say I did not even know her. She was certainly not particularly famous to the general public, even here in Germany. There weren't many sequences in this documentary that I found captivating or memorable, not to say any at all. If you have no real connection with dance or aren't a huge Wenders fan, you can skip this movie and you will not be missing much. Not recommended.

dirktoo32 A previous commentator wrote that there are 'upside down' trains in Pina.There are not..it's a Schwebebahn - a hover train, a train system suspended from high girders, which can be found in the German town of Wuppertal - where Pina was based.I'd love to watch this film in 3D - anyone who knows where I can do so in the UK - please drop me a line.The trailer is gorgeous. All that fluidity. I'm glad Wenders did this tribute - other than him only Lynch would have qualified to do so.

rebs_neto I've seen some plays of Pina's work and also heard about her in my drama classes, thus I decided to watch this movie to better understand her life, her achievements, in short, to know her better. From the beginning to the end I was shocked, nothing say about her personal life, she barely appear in the movie, however I could completely understand her, I emulate her dance, I dance with the art, I dance with the feelings, I spent all the time there, following her passion. During the scenes her dance partners spoke about her and I could see her strength and, mostly, her beliefs. She truly believed in her acts, she believed with so much passion and with freedom that we certainly finish the movie flying,our minds creativity boiling and our body exhausted, freely. If you are reading this review is because you considered to watch this movie...just one advice: Go with passion!

pefrss I just spent a wonderful afternoon watching the movie in honor of Pina Bausch.In the 1970s I lived for a few years in Wuppertal and saw Pina Bausch's performances there. It formed my taste for dance for the rest of my life. I never saw her live again after that and though I love contemporary dance I never found any modern dance ensemble as moving as what I had seen from Pina Bausch. I saw the movie in 3D and in my opinion it did not add to the experience. I hope I will have a chance to see it again without 3D I found it rather distracting. So far I have not seen one movie I liked in 3D.But it was a small distraction. Wenders did a wonderful job to catch Pina's essence. For me the movie could have gone on for hours and hours. It was perfect. Dance as another sense. I loved Patrick Suesskind's book 'Perfume' because he made us experience the world through our nose.Pina makes us experience our feelings through dance. And Wenders succeeded in even making Wuppertal look beautiful (Quite an achievement!).Many of the dance scenes are filmed in the middle of Wuppertal or inside their famous Schwebebahn (sort of a monorail). The dances are so good that they do not need a stage, or make up or extravagant costumes. The dance movements say it all. It is simply breathtaking. I guess that this movie will not be seen by so many people because it will not get the promotion like for example "Black Swan" got. I hated Black Swan. It was not a dance movie, but a movie about a girl with problems, who was flapping her arms. Imagine one moment one of Pina's dancer would have danced that role. Well, of course they wouldn't because their dance is not limited to a scripted role. I will buy the DVD, I hope they will release it in region 1 soon and I hope it will come across on the TV screen. I bought Altman's "The Company" after I saw it on the big screen, but it was never the same on my considerable smaller TV screen.