Louisiana Story (1948)
Average Rating: 7.3/10
Reviews Counted: 14
Fresh: 11 | Rotten: 3
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Documentary film pioneer Robert Flaherty's last feature is his most beautifully photographed work, but it also proved to be his most controversial as well. Sponsored by Standard Oil, the film can be seen as a paean to the minimal effect an oil company can have on the wilderness it seeks to exploit. Flaherty also picked a cast of amateur players to act out a simple story of a young Cajun boy (Joseph Boudreaux) and his parents living in Louisiana's magnificent bayou country almost side-by-side
Sep 28, 1948 Wide
May 20, 2003
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Cast
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Joseph Boudreaux
The Boy -
Lionel Le Blanc
His Father -
Mrs. E. Bienvenu
His Mother -
Frank Hardy
The Driller -
C.T. Guedry
His Boilerman -
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It has a slender, appealing story, moments of agonizing suspense, vivid atmosphere and superlative photography.
Flaherty's narrative may seem slightly naive; but his vision of a child's myth-world, and the oilmen's intrusion and acceptance into it, is perhaps his greatest achievement.
Top CriticThe ring of sincerity is clear in Flaherty's film.
It's a solid but tedious industrial film showing the risks and rewards of getting oil out of the ground.
As adept as it is in photographing nature, Louisiana Story is weak in capturing culture.
One of all time best, and one of earliest, documentaries; with Robert Flaherty's deft style.
...it's the virtuosic craftsmanship that makes Louisiana Story a genre classic.
Louisiana Story may be Flaherty's greatest work.
That Robert J. Flaherty managed to make a fascinating movie that also subtly chastises the massive oil interests (using their money to do it) is one for the record books.
It displays many of Flaherty's great strengths as a filmmaker, but it also showcases some of his weaknesses, which makes it an uneven film that is not in league with his earlier works.
Dated, but it looks great.
...the film has some of the most beautiful images I've ever seen in a movie yet, at the same time, some of the clunkiest, most awkwardly staged scenes I've ever seen outside of my high school's production of Oklahoma.
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Foreign Titles
- Louisiana Story (1948) (DE)
- Louisiana Story (1948) (UK)
