France/Brazil/Italy – Documentary – Year: 2015 – Running time: 110 mins
Audience feedback: Rating: 
(4.85 from 27 responses)
‘Excellent’: 24 votes- ‘Very Good’: 2 votes
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For the last 40 years, photographer Sebastião Salgado has been traveling through the continents, in the footsteps of an ever-changing humanity. This ravishingly beautiful documentary traces his career from the mid-80s portraits of Brazil’s vast gold mines, to the Rwandan genocide of the 90s, to the present. On the large screen, Solgado’s stunning, almost sculptural black-and-white images have a profound effect. Wenders delivers a moving and life-affirming tribute to a singular creative talent.
The Salt of the Earth travels to the heart of darkness, but thankfully comes out on the other side and leaves you with a hopefulness that no matter what kind of madness and repression happen in the world, there is still hope for humanity.
Josh Kupecki (Austin Chronicle)
Directors: Juliano Ribeiro Salgado, Wim Wenders
Salgado: Paris la métisse (2005)
Wenders: Pina (2011) / Buena Vista Social Club (1999) / Wings of Desire (1987)
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Selected UK reviews:
Little White Lies (Nick Newman)
The Observer (Mark Kermode)
What possibly can I say about his film _ So, so moving …… humanity? what can I say.
Superb filming, superb dialogue – enough said at every stage to leave one simply stunned. Felt so relived to see the trees growing again at the end – hope for the future? Let’s hope so!