The Ultimate Wave Tahiti

Feb 12, 2010

0h 45m

★ 7.2

Overview

Featuring ten-time world surfing champion Kelly Slater, The Ultimate Wave follows a quest to find the perfect wave-riding experience. Filmed in Tahiti and among the islands of French Polynesia, the film showcases dramatic giant screen surfing action in a unique Pacific paradise.

Genres

Documentary

Production Companies

Perfect Wave

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Cast

Narrator

Michael Hanrahan

Himself

Kelly Slater

Himself

Raimana Van Bastolear

Herself

Kalani Miller

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7.1

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5.8

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To the city come men, women, fruits, flowers, vegetables, goats and sheep – all ready for consumption. It is the process of consumption/exploitation that forms the core of the film.

0.0

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0.0

Heat

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10.0

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7.6

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4.7

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0.0

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7.7

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In 1967, de Andrade was invited by the Italian company Olivetti to produce a documentary on the new Brazilian capital city of Brasília. Constructed during the latter half of the 1950s and founded in 1960, the city was part of an effort to populate Brazil’s vast interior region and was to be the embodiment of democratic urban planning, free from the class divisions and inequalities that characterize so many metropolises. Unsurprisingly, Brasília, Contradições de uma Cidade Nova (Brasília, Contradictions of a New City, 1968) revealed Brasília to be utopic only for the wealthy, replicating the same social problems present in every Brazilian city. (Senses of Cinema)

6.8

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6.2

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0.0

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5.9

The Colour of His Hair

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6.9

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0.0

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East German short film

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0.0

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The Ultimate Wave Tahiti

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