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GRINGO TRAILS

Director:

  Pegi Vail
  

Year Released:

  2013

Jan's Rating:

Rich's Rating:

5 out of 5

n/a out of 5

Key Performances:

  Yossi Ghinsberg
  Pico Iyer
  International Backbackers
  3rd World Hosts
  Concerned Experts
Movie Haiku:Profound doc by NYU Anthropology Prof Vail is ostensibly about the impact of backpacker tourists on once distant climes & cultures, but implies even more about the way our now dominant "Western Mentality" has overrun our fragile planet & potentially brought it to the breaking point. Quests made popular by LAWRENCE OF ARABIA & "desert loving English" have now reached crisis proportions.

ADDITIONAL FF2 INFO ABOUT THIS FILM:

Women filmmakers?

  Yes

Jewish content?

  Yes

Haiku Posted:

  2014