Mindwalk

Bernt Capra's MINDWALK breaks every rule of conventional commercial filmmaking. Like Louis Malle's MY DINNER WITH ANDRE, this fictionalized presentation of the primary ecological and holistic ideas expounded in renowned scientist, philosopher and futurist Fritjof Capra's The Turning Point depends on the virtually nonstop conversation engaged in by its central characters to hold audience interest for the better part of two hours. The result is a brilliant, often exhilarating motion picture.

Radical physicist Sonia Hoffman (Liv Ullmann), conservative politician Jack Edwards (Sam Waterston) and expatriate poet Thomas Harriman (John Heard) have in common one...