Human Rights Watch Film Festival

Jackson’s narrative, like the film as a whole, is committed but calm, letting the facts speak for themselves. And the mood and atmosphere of Louisiana, and America, in its most turbulent years is vividly conveyed.

Not always easy and a little historically confusing, this is nevertheless a very powerful and brave work.

Despite its structural instability, Connolly still manages to find plenty of poignancy and to gather an emotional head of steam.

Young love has no currency compared to dirty currency and freedom is a dream rather than a promise.

The 'story' is somewhat simplistic, but the state-of-a-nation snapshot it allows to be revealed is complex and highly emotive.

The juxtaposition of natural cycle and human genocide is subtly and deeply conveyed.

Unobtrusive direction, naturalistic performances and humanist sentiment are de rigeur, along with sequences of guys driving around, as well as, more often than not, impenetrable night-for-night visuals.