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Aro Recommended When the Levees Broke - A Requiem in Four Acts

 

USA 2006, 256 minutes
Dir. Spike Lee
Rating: [Exempt]
Genres: Documentary

Topics: Disaster, Indigenous & Minority Cultures, Politics.

 

Aroview: Powerful, enraging chronicle of this century’s first great natural disaster, and the man-made catastrophe that unfolded post-Hurricane Katrina’s devastation of New Orleans.

Forgoing all-knowing narration for a widespread canvas of interviews and personal reflection, dir. Spike Lee’s ‘requiem’ is arranged through moving eyewitness accounts, staggering news footage, and sobering hindsight from talking heads. Its four acts (plus a fifth act epilogue exclusive to DVD) amount to an authoritative, exhaustive documentary tome, and while capturing hope and pathos in equal parts, is never far removed from Lee’s poli-racial cinema. Sure to leave a bitter aftertaste, its broadside on political fiasco, federal malpractice, and the failure of a first-world nation makes the central human tragedy all the more difficult to swallow.

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DVD Features

  • audio commentary
  • extra stuff
  • aspect ratio: 16:9
  • 3-disc set
 

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