Flow: For Love of Water
Crit
Number of seats in theater 9, the larger of the Criterion's two DVD screening rooms: 30.Number of seats filled for the 2:10 show: 7 (which is to say about as big a crowd as I've been part of in one of the tiny theaters).
Number of viewers who left, presumably on bathroom breaks, during this film about water: 2.
Number of viewers I saw drinking from a Dasani bottle just as we were being told that bottled water is less regulated than U.S. tap water, that there's less reason to believe that bottled water is purer than to believe the reverse: 1.
Number of girls whose ages I estimated at 8 to 10 (young enough that I seriously considered asking their father/big brother whether they weren't perhaps in the wrong theater) in the audience for this very serious documentary about, among other scary and infuriating things, how multinational corporations like Suez and Vivendi and Coca-Cola and Nestlé steal our water (and the water of nations much poorer than ours) and sell it back to us (and to people much poorer than us): 2.
Number of languages requiring subtitles: at least 7 (Spanish and French; Xhosi, Zulu, and I believe one other African language; Hindi (at least 2 dialects, I think); and heavily accented English.
Number of indications of restlessness by the young girls (or, for that matter, the audience as a whole): 0.
Number of the proposed article to be added to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in order to establish that "everyone has the right to clean and accessible water, adequate for the health and well-being of the individual and family, and no one shall be deprived of such access or quality of water due to individual economic circumstance": 31 (take 31 seconds or less and sign the petition here).
Date the film will be available on DVD: 12/9. See http://www.flowthefilm.com/ for more info.
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