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Robb Moss,
Robb Moss
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: New Video Group
: Documentary, Biographies
: 78 min.
: English
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Film scholar Robb Moss combines home-movie footage from the '70s with current documentary interviews to fashion this intimate memoir of his summer-of-love friends, then and now. The Same River Twice chronicles the lives of Moss and five of his friends, all of whom served as white-water rafting tour guides while in their twenties. In that era, their nudist, free-love ways brought them together; now, Moss learns, many of the couples have split up, or given up their utopian ideals. ~ Michael Hastings, All Movie Guide
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| Vanishing Beauty of Youth
by dougasrobbins
August 1, 2006 - 8:01 PM PDT
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2 out of 2 members found this review helpful
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| Very impressive documentary. It's a commentary about the dreams and wild expectations of youth and how those dreams fare when people grow up. Thirty years later and the world seems less magical less worth living in. And there's no going back. |
| Then and Now
by talltale
March 2, 2005 - 5:41 AM PST
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3 out of 4 members found this review helpful
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| THE SAME RIVER TWICE spans nearly 25 years and shows us a group of friends in the late 70s and again at this past Millennium. The film snaps back and forth between then and now, and as disheveled as the cutting, the pace and the general moviemaking skills may be, eventually these people coalesce into interesting "wholes." Their days as nudist hippies are shown in full--but don't worry about your kids watching. This film is probably as good a way as any to show them what certain times and lifestyles were like. Seeing and hearing the older versions of these people, we come face to face with aging, loss, sickness, divorce and some thoughtful ruminations. Oddly, in its raggedy manner, the film approaches profundity--and does it in a quiet, unpretentious way. Interesting note: Contrast the way in which one of the women discusses her earlier use of recreational drugs and how to explain this to her children with our current President George W.'s handling of the same thing. The comparison defines pretense, denial and hypocrisy to a tee. |
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