Chris says: “As a coming-of-age study, it’s fairly candid (almost blunt) in how unformed its protagonist is as most of us are at that age; the direction’s also somewhat unformed in a hit-or-miss way although the conclusion it arrives at
Chris says: “Nearly two decades after their feature debut THE BOYS OF BARAKA, Heidi Ewing and Rachel Grady come full circle with another documentary about an unconventional school, albeit one far different from the earlier film’s inner city Baltimore 7th
Diane says: “A very tense film about 48 hours in the life of a Guinean man seeking asylum in France. I am remembering that, in the discussion of a similar movie, I asked what was the point of me watching it,
Chris says: “Like many a bio-doc, it tells the viewer ad nauseam how great and talented its pioneering ventriloquist subject was but this does an eloquent job of backing that up with a variety of clips that also show it.