“The best film on display this year happens to be the last: Laura Dunn’s The Unforeseen is probably the American documentary of the year.”

“Chronicling all of this in painstaking detail, Dunn makes no bones about her agenda (it could be summed up as “development is bad for children and other living things”) but she does makes some effort at balance.”

“By alternating interviews with numerical and graphic explanations of the situation, and insisting on the image of nature that was, and that still survives even if in minimal traces, Laura Dunn creates a documentary of splendid workmanship both in terms of content and visual.”

“If an environmental film festival still sounds like a dry, activist-heavy affair, be assured that Planet in Focus has cinematic delights for those who just appreciate world-class cinematography and storytelling. There’s no better example of this than the closing-night film, The Unforeseen.”

“The projection booth could have used its own spiritual guide; a projector lamp burned out about eight minutes into Laura Dunn’s beautiful if obvious The Unforeseen, reducing the experience to a momentarily dark, drawling meditation on unchecked development in the suburbs of Austin, Tx.”

“The Unforeseen is the umpteenth film about ecological problems / environmentalists and on the conflict between nature and progress, but manages to get highlighted… thanks to some suggestive images it offers, and especially thanks to those excerpts of present in visual poetry.”

“Laura Dunn is probably the new frontier of American documentary, sweeter but equally resolute to Michael Moore, more willing to do formal research and to desire beauty compared to colleagues generation “Bowling for Columbine” Laura Dunn research and develops a sense of the act human vision of raising the issue at a level substantially philosophical and biological. “

“Not only is the story of the life of a Texas manufacturer, speculation building in the USA, the American lobby, but especially that of a man who has promised himself to return in the small town in which it is born of winning and is willing to do this to sacrifice and destroy everything that comes along its path: short summary of the American dream”

“Lensed with a lyrical beauty that nods squarely to exec-producer Terrence Malick, Dunn’s musings arrive via startling visual symmetries, refocusing gracefully between great (God’s-eye photography, motion graphics) and small (talking heads, glittering underwater footage). “