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Critics Consensus: Bisbee '17 offers one town's reckoning with its own history as a compelling argument that the mistakes of the past are truly corrected only when they're faced head on.
Critic Consensus: Bisbee '17 offers one town's reckoning with its own history as a compelling argument that the mistakes of the past are truly corrected only when they're faced head on.
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A fascinating exercise in nonfiction filmmaking as a performative, interdisciplinary, collective act, as well as a provocative inquiry into how selective memory, ideology, shame and unspeakable trauma shape what we come to accept as official history.
It would be enough for any documentary to tell this piece of hushed-up history, but Bisbee '17 is onto something more radical; watching it is like witnessing the defusing of a time bomb from a foot away.
An interesting if unfulfilling documentary experiment...
Greene has made a hard movie to argue with, even as he invites you to do exactly that.
In some respects "Bisbee '17" serves as a kind of therapy for the town. But it's still difficult material.
Greene's movie... grows into an adventurous exercise in drama-documentary; what could have seemed arch or awkward is handled with grace and tact, and there is even a song.
The play between past and present political predicaments of immigration, unionisation and corporate corruption piercingly resonate thanks to Greene's ingenious sense of staging...
The Deportation seemed to disappear from town history. It was rarely mentioned. Even today residents don't really talk of the Deportation. It is a town that can keep a secret.
Bisbee '17 speaks to the stakes of local history and amateur genealogy for places and people that are twinkling out of living memory.
Robert Greene has created a thoughtful and sprawling documentary about facing up to the past by walking in the shadow of history.
I was moved to tears, a rarity for me. It's closing passages are so exceptionally well-handled that one might actually forget they're watching a documentary recreation.
Bisbee '17 is the rare documentary that also succeeds as a provocative cinematic statement.
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