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Fantastic Fungi

2019

Louie Schwartzberg

Documentary, Self: Paul Stamets, Roland Griffiths, Tony D. Head ...

6.8

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Documentary June 12, 2019 From the Maui Film Festival's Celestial Cinema. Imagine an organism that feeds you, heals you, reveals secrets of the universe and could help save the planet. Fantastic Fungi is a revelatory time-lapse journey, from 2019 Maui Film Festival Visionary Award honoree and director Louie Schwartzberg, about the magical, mysterious and medicinal world of fungi and their power to heal, sustain and contribute to the regeneration of ... [+]

	Media	Author	Review
		Jeannette Catsoulis The New York Times	"A charming blend of science and conjecture, 'Fantastic Fungi' wants to free your mind."
		John DeFore The Hollywood Reporter	"It's more dazzling than comprehensive, and for some will become exhausting well before its quick running time is over."
		Andrew Pulver The Guardian	"With it spectacular footage of growth and decay and impassioned speeches about the magic of mushrooms, this documentary is a treat for the eye and ear (...) Rating: ★★★ (out of 5)"
		Matt Fagerholm rogerebert.com	"Mark Monroe (...) does an impressive job of compiling the multitudinous strands of facts and theories in a way that is coherent and compulsively watchable (...) Rating: ★★★½ (out of 4)"
		Robert Abele Los Angeles Times	"A documentary of epic proportions (...) entertaining, informative and appealingly hopeful"
		Joe Morgenstern The Wall Street Journal	"An eloquent paean to an underexplored kingdom (...) Fantastic Fungi” is never uninteresting, and often startling in the natural beauty it reveal"
		Rex Reed The New York Observer	"The result is fascinating, informative, educational and totally entertaining."

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