Arcadia

Arcadia

2017 · 82 min · ★ 7.1 · Documentary

A provocative and poetic exploration of how the British people have seen their own land through more than a century of cinema. A hallucinated journey of immense beauty and brutality. A kaleidoscopic essay on how magic and madness have linked human beings to nature since the beginning of time.

Directed by Paul Wright

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