There are hundreds of surfing movies out there. This one might be described as artful and holistic, and it attempts to generate the buzz for surfing that Morning Of The Earth did for the 1970s. The soundtrack is sympathetic to that movie, and if you like indie rock that a little folksy then you'll love it. The beauty of this movie is the actual surfing. It is really varied, from many extraordinary angles (the filmmaker obviously got wet himself), and tends to try to glimpse personal experience of the spiritual side of surfing from many surfers' perspective. In this Spirit of Akasha is extraordinarily successful. You'll see both huge and tiny waves at interesting and picturesque spots around the world that most of us won't recognise, and talented and varied surfers that value, overall, style over airs, if I may put it like that. Brilliant edits incorporating the action with stylish photography complete the picture, along with flashes of surfing lifestyles. It's a good movie, though I thought the beginning a little old-fashioned and boring, and the end sequences, though dramatic, a little too dark. In any case, I certainly got buzzed.
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