Hip-Hop Gangsters on an Isle of Chaos
di A. O. Scott The New York Times
Asger Leth’s Ghosts of Cité Soleil offers a tour of a notorious, hellish slum in Port-au-Prince, the capital of Haiti. There, in 2004, when this documentary was shot, gang leaders known as Chimères (the ghosts of the title) fought with one another, and also with opponents of Haiti’s president, Jean-Bertrand Aristide, for control of the streets. Mr. Aristide’s decade-long decline from hero of democracy to belligerent strongman provides a backdrop for Mr. Leth’s focus on two Chimère leaders as they struggle for dominance and survival amid chaos and squalor. [...]
di A. O. Scott, articolo completo (2818 caratteri spazi inclusi) su The New York Times 27 Giugno 2007