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September 23, 2008
Goa
Years ago one member of the vast worldwide staff here at KIW took a trip through India and wound up spending a few weeks in a intriguiging corner of that country called Goa.
Located on the central west coast, a few hundred miles south of Bombay, Goa's cruel history as a Portuguese colony separates its local culture from that of the rest of the subcontinent.
In the late 20th Century, Goa was the center of a swirling - and somewhat spiritual - hippie movement emphasing freedom, adventure, love . . .and eventually just drugs.
This small film documents the lives of some of the 1970s hippie characters. Among the saddest and most fascinating is Cleo Odzer.
Last Hippie Standing (2002). Written and directed by Marcus Robbin.
Posted by williamfrick at September 23, 2008 5:21 AM