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Fantastic Fungi

2019 · 80 min · Director: Louie Schwartzberg ★ IMDb 7.5 · 12,687 ratings

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June 12, 2019 From the Maui Film Festival's Celestial Cinema. Imagine an organism that feeds you, heals you, reveals secrets of the universe and could help save the planet. Fantastic Fungi is a revelatory time-lapse journey, from 2019 Maui Film Festival Visionary Award honoree and director Louie Schwartzberg, about the magical, mysterious and medicinal world of fungi and their power to heal, sustain and contribute to the regeneration of life on Earth that began 3.5 billion years ago.

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Fantastic Fungi (2019) — Movie. Top emotional signals: Awe 35%, Inspiration 30%, Curiosity 20%. Source: AI estimate. Shares describe emotional signal, not percentages of people. Your experience may differ. How we measure

  1. Awe35%
  2. Joy15%

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The strongest emotional signals are Awe, Inspiration, Curiosity. Genres: Documentary. AI estimate.

Is it worth watching?

Consider this title if you are looking for Awe, Inspiration and Curiosity. Its IMDb rating of 7.5/10 suggests a generally positive audience reception. For these leading emotions, its Feel Score is 75/100.

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Emotional journey

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  • Hope
  • Curiosity
  • Empathy

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Dominant emotion: Curiosity

Dominant emotion: Awe

Dominant emotion: Hope

Dominant emotion: Tension

Dominant emotion: Empathy

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Emotional journey Emotional intensity over the film’s runtime, from quieter to stronger on a fixed 0–1 scale. Hatched intervals have insufficient subtitle evidence. The table provides the values.
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Dominant emotion

Intensity dips around 57 %, then rises around 68 %, then peaks around 78 %.Ending hidden

Emotional journey
%Approximate minuteDominant emotionOverall intensityHopeCuriosityEmpathy
2.5 %≈ 2′Curiosity55 %27 %60 %5 %
7.5 %≈ 6′Curiosity53 %28 %61 %4 %
12.5 %≈ 10′Curiosity51 %33 %59 %10 %
17.5 %≈ 14′Curiosity52 %30 %54 %18 %
22.5 %≈ 18′Awe57 %28 %53 %13 %
27.5 %≈ 22′Hope58 %29 %55 %10 %
32.5 %≈ 26′Curiosity60 %25 %57 %20 %
37.5 %≈ 30′Tension62 %30 %53 %31 %
42.5 %≈ 34′Hope56 %44 %51 %27 %
47.5 %≈ 38′Hope53 %53 %56 %16 %
52.5 %≈ 42′Hope53 %53 %58 %13 %
57.5 %≈ 46′Curiosity51 %44 %57 %13 %
62.5 %≈ 50′Curiosity52 %38 %53 %23 %
67.5 %≈ 54′Empathy60 %45 %43 %46 %
72.5 %≈ 58′Awe70 %57 %38 %61 %
77.5 %≈ 62′Awe75 %65 %35 %66 %
82.5 %≈ 66′Empathy74 %68 %36 %61 %
87.5 %≈ 70′Hope67 %68 %46 %36 %
92.5 %≈ 74′Hope63 %68 %44 %18 %
97.5 %≈ 78′Hope63 %67 %30 %15 %
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Rags to riches: The emotional tone rises from negative to positive.

Riches to rags: The emotional tone falls from positive to negative.

Man in a hole: The tone falls, then recovers.

Icarus: The tone rises, then falls.

Cinderella: The tone rises, falls, then rises again.

Oedipus: The tone falls, rises, then falls again.

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Cast

Brie Larson

Narrator (voice)

AW
Andrew Weil

PS
Paul Stamets

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Michael Pollan

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GF
Giuliana Furci

RG
Roland Griffiths

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Mary P. Cosmiano

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Details

Directed by
Louie Schwartzberg
Written by
Mark Monroe
Type
Movies
Released
2019
Runtime
80 min
Country
United States
Ratings
★ IMDb 7.5 · 12,687 ratings
Feels mostly
Awe
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