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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. Oct 24, 2018 | Rating: 3.5/4 | Full Review…
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.
Ann Hornaday
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. Sep 30, 2018 | Rating: 4/5 | Full Review…
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.
Joshua Rothkopf
An interesting if unfulfilling documentary experiment... Sep 27, 2018 | Rating: 2/4 | Full Review…
An interesting if unfulfilling documentary experiment...
G. Allen Johnson
Greene has made a hard movie to argue with, even as he invites you to do exactly that. Sep 25, 2018 | Full Review…
Greene has made a hard movie to argue with, even as he invites you to do exactly that.
Justin Chang
In some respects "Bisbee '17" serves as a kind of therapy for the town. But it's still difficult material. Sep 11, 2018 | Rating: 4.5/5 | Full Review…
In some respects "Bisbee '17" serves as a kind of therapy for the town. But it's still difficult material.
Bill Goodykoontz
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. Sep 10, 2018 | Full Review…
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.
Anthony Lane
One of the best films so far this year: a powerful meditation on art's transformative abilities, as well as a sobering reminder that in any conflict, it's the victors who usually write the official history. Mar 25, 2019 | Rating: 5/5 | Full Review…
One of the best films so far this year: a powerful meditation on art's transformative abilities, as well as a sobering reminder that in any conflict, it's the victors who usually write the official history.
Phil Guie
Topical and urgent. Mar 2, 2019 | Full Review…
Topical and urgent.
Caroline Golum
The play between past and present political predicaments of immigration, unionisation and corporate corruption piercingly resonate thanks to Greene's ingenious sense of staging... Dec 5, 2018 | Full Review…
The play between past and present political predicaments of immigration, unionisation and corporate corruption piercingly resonate thanks to Greene's ingenious sense of staging...
Jordan M. Smith
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. Nov 17, 2018 | Rating: 3/5 | Full Review…
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.
Carey-Ann Pawsey
Bisbee '17 speaks to the stakes of local history and amateur genealogy for places and people that are twinkling out of living memory. Oct 30, 2018 | Full Review…
Bisbee '17 speaks to the stakes of local history and amateur genealogy for places and people that are twinkling out of living memory.
Mark Asch
Robert Greene has created a thoughtful and sprawling documentary about facing up to the past by walking in the shadow of history. Oct 29, 2018 | Full Review…
Robert Greene has created a thoughtful and sprawling documentary about facing up to the past by walking in the shadow of history.
Rob Aldam
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