Waking Life 2001 Watch Free in HD

Transcending the boundaries of technology and imagination, 'Waking Life' is a revolutionary breakthrough in film animation. It tells the story of a man who shuffles through a dream meeting various people and discussing the meanings and purposes of the universe.

Genre:

Drama, Animation, Fantasy

Actors:

Trevor Jack Brooks, Lorelei Linklater, Wiley Wiggins, Glover Gill, Lara Hicks, Ames Asbell, Leigh Mahoney, Sara Nelson, Jeanine Attaway, Erik Grostic, Bill Wise, ...»

Director:

Richard Linklater

Country:

United States

Release:

2001

IMDb:

7.7

Quality:

Duration:

99 min

Minneapolis Star Tribune

For a movie heralded as the cutting edge of visual innovation, Waking Life is disappointingly dull in every other respect.

November 06, 2002

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Film4

Form and content fit perfectly: even if the highbrow babbling gets a bit much, the hypnotic animation means that there is always something to watch, like characters suddenly dissolving into smoke or spectacles expanding.

September 09, 2008

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Old School Reviews

a commercial ripoff designed to confuse art-house patrons

February 13, 2011

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Time Out

The endless philosophising is a bit sophomoric and more jokes would help, but this is one of a kind that grows more absorbing the longer it runs.

January 26, 2006

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Cinema Crazed

A brilliant film that provokes thought, idea, and conversations within the audience through its surreal animation and incredibly profound conversations.

April 29, 2009

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Miami Herald

An instant cult classic, one that's tailor-made for multiple viewings and bound to be popular among college students.

November 08, 2001

Suite101.com

A far-out-man poetry slam, art exhibit and imaginative philosophical discourse all at once drifts gently down a stream of consciousness until merrily, merrily, merrily, merrily, "Waking Life" is but a dream. Who says existential fiction must be dreary?

November 22, 2010

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New York Magazine/Vulture

If there was ever a film that made ontological exploration fun, this is it.

January 22, 2002

Salon.com

Exhilarating, transporting, funny and haunting -- and at times maddeningly heady or narcotically logy -- Waking Life doesn't compare to any other movie experience I've ever had.

December 05, 2001

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eFilmCritic.com

A true independent film that uses animation techniques to their utmost.

July 24, 2007

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Common Sense Media

Love-it-or-hate-it film best for older teens.

December 29, 2010

Variety

This inventive animated film, which takes Linklater back to his roots in Austin and Slacker, represents a summation of all the philosophical concerns that have defined him as spokesperson for Gen-X.

October 31, 2006

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