Banished: How Whites Drove Blacks Out of Town in America

When Jim Crow Came to Town, With Eviction Notices

There are ghosts haunting Marco Williams’s quietly sorrowful documentary “Banished,” about the forced expulsion of black Southerners from their homes in the troubled and violent decades after the Civil War. Dressed in what looks like their Sunday best, in dark suits and high-collar dresses, they stare solemnly into an unwelcoming world. A couple ride in a cart along a pretty country road, and others stand awkwardly before houses with peeling paint. There are few smiles. Photography was then a serious business, though being a black landowner, part of a fragile, nascent Southern middle class, was more serious still. [...]

di Manohla Dargis, articolo completo (4267 caratteri spazi inclusi) su The New York Times 26 settembre 2007