Summary
A Dutch family left Holland to transform a 400 year old monastery into a home, artist's workshop, and nature preserve. Filmed entirely in remote village in Portugal, Convento bends the rigid structure of documentary filmmaking, blurring the lines of information and surrealism Featuring the renowned kinetic artist Christiaan Zwanikken and his family.
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Critics vs audiences
Critics like it more than audiences (+13)
Critics 84Audiences 71GoodWatch 58
Tomatometer100%
Metascore67
IMDb7.1
Running time
53 min
Shorter than 9 in 10 documentaries, −43 min on the typical 96
typical 9653Half of all documentaries run 89–107 min.
Reach
Streams in 129 countries
+119Released
2010
November 29, 2010
16 years ago
Genre
DocumentaryLanguage
English
Original language
Made in
- United States
Directing · 1
- Jarred Alterman Director, Producer, Director of Photography, Editor
Production · 1
- Evan Meszaros Producer, Sound Engineer
Sound · 1
- Lawrence Dolan Original Music Composer
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