On both sides of the Mobile Mardi Gras divide, people seem to be edging toward a desire for reconciliation, but there remain significant differences about what that might entail.
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07/25/08
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The Order of Myths (2008)
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Reviews Counted:32
Fresh:32
Rotten:0
Average Rating:7.7/10
Consensus: More than a documentary about the oldest Mardi Gras celebration in the south, Order of Myths encompasses the eccentric characters of Mobile and the still-lingering racial tensions that surround them.
Rated: Not Rated
Genre: Musical & Performing Arts
Theatrical Release:Jul 25, 2008 Limited
Synopsis: As winter turns to spring, Mobile, Alabama, buzzes and flutters with the floats, parades, masquerade balls, and secret mystic societies of Mardi Gras. The oldest Mardi Gras celebration in America,... [More]
Director: Margaret Brown
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Reviews for The Order of Myths
Top CriticIn The Order of Myths, just as in Manderlay, the legacy of slavery lingers on far past its historical moment.
07/21/08
Brown presents a complex, provocative view ...
08/08/08
A well-constructed documentary about a surprising remnant of segregation in the new South, The Order of Myths gracefully explores Mobile's Mardi Gras celebrations and profiles the young people playing at royalty at these ceremonies' hearts.
11/07/08
Entertaining, mind-opening docs open every month, but none has broken through to a wide audience. Now comes the latest winner, Margaret Brown’s penetrating The Order of Myths.
07/21/08
Top CriticThis microcosmic look at race relations is a great reminder that, even in the year of Obama, we remain a nation divided between black and white.
07/24/08
Engrossing if discomfiting.
07/25/08
An informative behind-the-scenes look at America's oldest Mardi Gras.
12/05/08
The camera effectively pictures the two separate but equal Mardi Gras and contrasts the faux-baroque finery with some urban scruffiness.
07/21/08
[An] affectingly insightful and well-informed documentary. Myths taps into a special kind of Southern tradition%u2014with underlying racial overtones as a societal hovering factor.
12/04/08
Editors Michael Taylor, Geoffrey Richman and [director Margaret Brown] have stitched the material together to make a lively and revealing portrait of life in the New South.
01/30/08
Mobile and its still-segregated Mardi Gras tradition seem to be world unto themselves, presented without reference to the wider world's pressing issues--the failing economy, environmental concerns, war in Iraq. The documentary's impressive compilation of
04/03/09
Provides a good feel for the fun and exciting parts of Mobile's Mardi Gras as well as the undercurrent of "traditional" racial segregation that still exists today.
04/17/08
Order of Myths looks good, and its characters are memorable.
01/22/08
Top CriticTrapped under the weight of hundreds of years of racial animosity and mistrust, with few clues as to how to work themselves free, the celebrants of the oldest Mardi Gras in the country take refuge in their traditions.
10/24/08
A nice gesture, but in the sequel I'd like to see these refined rednecks really shaken out of their comfort zone. How about taking these folks north of the Mason-Dixon Line to see how the other half of the country lives before they miss out on the 21st C.
07/22/08
Finds an unusual tonal sweet spot somewhere in between absurdist comedy and melancholy in considering two groups at a socio-historical impasse.
03/13/08
Ostensibly about Mobile, Alabama's annual Mardi Gras tradition, which dates back to 1703, Margaret Brown's documentary is actually an examination of the racial divide in a city that claims there is none.
07/25/08
Wise and soberly affecting documentary about the separate but unequal Mardi Gras festivities that take place each year in Mobile, Ala.
07/25/08
Separate but equal is alive and well in America; see how it works at Mardi Gras in Mobile
01/20/09
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