‘Mindwalk’

Adapted by physicist and popular science author Fritjof Capra and directed by his brother Bernt, this 1991 release is mainly an absorbing discourse on the world. The movie unfolds in the conversations between three people roaming the French isle of Mont. St. Michel. They are a vacationing Democratic senator (Sam Waterston), an expatriate poet (John Heard) and a physicist (Liv Ullmann, pictured) who has cut herself off from the world. The backgrounds of sea, sky and castle not only give greater presence to the conversation--as does Philip Glass’ minimalist score--but also act as a metaphor for the kind of society Ullmann says is lost. The one hitch in the film, which targets environmental wreckers and robotized governments, is thatit is most likely to appeal to people who already agree with it (Bravo, Sunday at 5 p.m., again at 11:30 p.m.).