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08/16/07
Searching for the Wrong-Eyed Jesus (2005)
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Reviews Counted: 34
Fresh: 23
Rotten:11
Average Rating: 6.1/10
Consensus: This atmospheric tour of the Deep South is both quirky and lovely.
Theatrical Release:Jul 13, 2005 Limited
Synopsis: In this magnificent cinematic film, the acclaimed Alternative Country artist Jim White takes us on an entrancing journey into the heart of the culture of the southern USA, a culture too poor and... [More]
Starring: Jim White, Harry Crews, David Johansen, Johnny Dowd
Director: Andrew Douglas
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Reviews for Searching for the Wrong-Eyed Jesus
To say the film lingers in the mind like a nightmare is not to say it is unpleasant.
03/01/07
The music was fine; the tour was suspect.
05/29/06
It's a slow, ponderous film -- too slow and too ponderous, maybe -- but an intriguing one, often funny, sometimes unnerving, and altogether hard to forget.
05/05/06
Calling this a documentary is a bit of a misnomer, as Douglas splices staged music numbers into his travelogue footage to paint his surreal homage to the Deep South
02/10/06
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02/09/06
The stories, usually told by white men, grow banal, and the richness of White's world increasingly seems limited in scope . . . seems racially myopic.
01/21/06
White says you can’t really understand the South if its not in your blood, and he’s probably right. But the film does an admirable job trying to give us a transfusion.
11/10/05
According to this, there are only 3 types of people in the South: the sinners on the road to hell, the religious fanatics praying for them, and the people who sing about both.
10/25/05
The soundtrack, which includes Lee Sexton, The Handsome Family and others, is full of haunting Southern sounds; the camera work is inventive; and the interviews give you an off-center sense of place that equals at least one aspect of the South.
10/20/05
Top CriticSearching for the Wrong-Eyed Jesus is one of those movie-long non sequiturs where, though one thought does not logically follow another, we know what is meant.
10/07/05
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10/01/05
Andrew Douglas' meandering documentary Searching For The Wrong-Eyed Jesus contains fantastic images--pictures that haven't been captured so intimately before.
09/26/05
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08/20/05
A portrait of rural America as beautiful as it is bizarre.
08/12/05
Brooding, often beautiful tone poem of a documentary.
08/07/05
The atmosphere conveyed is possibly too vivid. By the time the movie is over, you'll probably feel the need to take a shower just to scrub off the lingering, psychic grime.
08/05/05
The soundtrack [provides] the brooding Southern atmosphere that sometimes eludes Douglas on this beautifully shot but strangely distant road trip.
08/05/05
This is the only film I have seen that captures a true essence of the South's unique if odd beauty.
08/04/05
Succeeds in being both awestruck and affectionate, rather than mocking in tone.
08/03/05
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