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Yo, there's no way for me to review this film without saying, take your *insert ethnicity + "ass" here* to see this film,like now. You have to see it in order to know what you're really messing with.

This story has more twists and turns than a second-rate soap opera.

A previous commentator wrote that there are 'upside down' trains in Pina.There are not..it's a Schwebebahn - a hover train, a train system suspended from high girders, which can be found in the German town of Wuppertal - where Pina was based.I'd love to watch this film in 3D - anyone who knows where I can do so in the UK - please drop me a line.The trailer is gorgeous. All that fluidity. I'm glad Wenders did this tribute - other than him only Lynch would have qualified to do so.

A groundbreaking film, in many ways. Also a major creative come-back for Wim Wenders, one of the greatest cinematic voices of the 1970s and '80s. Truly a hybrid of cinema and dance, the work refuses to compromise between the two and is both at once. Just as remarkably, perhaps identically, is the fact that its the only film I've ever seen that incorporates 3-D into its aesthetic in a way that is in no way gimmicky. Indeed, I am not sure the work could be fully successful without 3-D. It is, after all, a meditation on movement in space. And that is hard to pay full diligence to on a flat surface. Having said that, if anyone ever could, it would have been Wim Wenders. Pina's choreography truly moved me. She's a visual poet of the vulnerable.

This is probably Wenders' best in years, although I admit I've skipped everything he's made since the terrible The End of Violence back in 1997. This is great, whatever the case. It's a very unconventional documentary about choreographer Pina Bausch. Well, not really. It's about her work. There's almost no biographical information throughout the film. All we really learn is that she was a choreographer, and that she's dead. I don't even think the film mentions her surname until the credits. This is all about her work, which Wenders stages with former members of her troupe. It's all about the dancing, and if you love dancing, well, this film is a real treat. The dancing is quite unconventional itself. Occasionally there would be dances with which I was not enamored, but the vast majority I loved. Apparently, this was made to be seen in 3D, but, as usual, I doubt it's worth the eye strain. It's perfectly spectacular in 2D.

I just spent a wonderful afternoon watching the movie in honor of Pina Bausch.In the 1970s I lived for a few years in Wuppertal and saw Pina Bausch's performances there. It formed my taste for dance for the rest of my life. I never saw her live again after that and though I love contemporary dance I never found any modern dance ensemble as moving as what I had seen from Pina Bausch. I saw the movie in 3D and in my opinion it did not add to the experience. I hope I will have a chance to see it again without 3D I found it rather distracting. So far I have not seen one movie I liked in 3D.But it was a small distraction. Wenders did a wonderful job to catch Pina's essence. For me the movie could have gone on for hours and hours. It was perfect. Dance as another sense. I loved Patrick Suesskind's book 'Perfume' because he made us experience the world through our nose.Pina makes us experience our feelings through dance. And Wenders succeeded in even making Wuppertal look beautiful (Quite an achievement!).Many of the dance scenes are filmed in the middle of Wuppertal or inside their famous Schwebebahn (sort of a monorail). The dances are so good that they do not need a stage, or make up or extravagant costumes. The dance movements say it all. It is simply breathtaking. I guess that this movie will not be seen by so many people because it will not get the promotion like for example "Black Swan" got. I hated Black Swan. It was not a dance movie, but a movie about a girl with problems, who was flapping her arms. Imagine one moment one of Pina's dancer would have danced that role. Well, of course they wouldn't because their dance is not limited to a scripted role. I will buy the DVD, I hope they will release it in region 1 soon and I hope it will come across on the TV screen. I bought Altman's "The Company" after I saw it on the big screen, but it was never the same on my considerable smaller TV screen.