Musical Dreams After Nightmares
di Stephen Holden The New York Times
“War/Dance,” a visually ravishing documentary that follows a group of schoolchildren from a refugee camp in northern Uganda to a national music competition, raises a fundamental issue for filmmakers confronting unimaginable suffering in war-torn African countries. To what degree should human savagery be softened, sweetened and presented in a spirit of hope to make it palatable to a movie audience?
Directed by Sean Fine and Andrea Nix Fine, this would-be crowd pleaser, which won the documentary directing prize at this year’s Sundance Film Festival, is so gorgeous that its beauty distracts from the anguish it reveals. [...]
di Stephen Holden, articolo completo (4540 caratteri spazi inclusi) su The New York Times 9 novembre 2007
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