Daughters of the Dust1991
Daughters of the Dust (1991)
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Critic Consensus: Daughters of the Dust addresses its weighty themes with lovely visuals and a light, poetic touch, offering an original, absorbing look at a largely unexplored corner of American culture.
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Cast
as Nana
as Eula
as Viola
as Eli
as Haagar
as Yellow Mary
as Mr. Snead
as Iona
as Viola's Mother
as Companion
as Hairbraider
as Myown
as Daddy Mac
as Woman with Baby
as The Unborn Child
as Trula
as Bilal
as Newlywed Man
as Older Cousin
as Baptist Minister
as Boatman
as Boatman
as Newlywed Woman
as Peazant Baby
as Peazant Baby
as Peazant Man
as Peazant Man
as Peazant Man
as Peazant Man
as Peazant Boy
as Peazant Boy
as Peazant Child
as Peazant Child
as Peazant Child
as Peazant Child
as Pete
as Re-Pete
as Rice Husker
as Rice Husker
as St. Julen Lastchild
as Moss Gatherer
as Moss Gatherer
as Minister's Assistant
as Processional Man
as Woman Being Baptizied
as Baptismal Processional Member
as Baptismal Processional Member
as Baptismal Processional Member
as Baptismal Processional Member
as Baptismal Processional Member
as Baptismal Processional Member
as Baptismal Processional Member
as Baptismal Processional Member
as Baptismal Processional Member
as Baptismal Processional Member
as Baptismal Processional Member
as Indigo Plantation Worker
as Indigo Plantation Worker
as Indigo Plantation Worker
as Indigo Plantation Worker
as Indigo Plantation Worker
as Indigo Plantation Worker
as Indigo Plantation Worker
as Indigo Plantation Worker
as Indigo Plantation Worker
as Indigo Plantation Worker
as Indigo Plantation Worker
as Young Nana Peazant
as Young Daddy Mac
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Critic Reviews for Daughters of the Dust
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Even when the pace slows to a crawl, the island's gentle mood is appealing.
An absorbing, spirited film that merits considerable respect.
Daughters' impressionistic look at the Great Migration (who will go, who will stay, and at what cost?) combines a corporeal sense of history with poetic, often indirect and allegorical underpinnings.
Daughters of the Dust is a film with a lot on its mind, but one that wears its agendas with lyrical lightness.
Its examination of a bygone way of life is so patient and evocative, so beholden to its own storytelling conventions and rhythms, that watching it is a bit like submitting to a form of time travel.
Daughters of the Dust abounds with stunning motifs and tableaux, the iconography seemingly sourced from dreams as much as from history and folklore.
Audience Reviews for Daughters of the Dust
Director Julie Dash's first feature. This was named one of the 50 greatest movies by black directors in The Black Film Canon by slate.com. This picture offers a chance to observe a unique culture and place and time that as far as I know has rarely been portrayed in cinema. Therefore it also offers a chance for the audience to build skills of empathy. I am not familiar with anyone in the cast, but the matriarchal Peazant family with many mother, daughter, sister, aunt, and niece relationships are well portrayed. In 1902 on the islands off the coast of South Carolina African folk-ways were maintained and this was known as Gullah culture. There are characters who are still connected to African pagan customs and magic, characters who have embraced Islam's influence, and characters who have received some education near white society on the mainland who have been converted to Christianity, and they all live together in relatively close quarters on this island. The narration is often poetically trying to describe memories. Visually it is full of earthy beach tones and many dreamy sequences.
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A Top Ten Independent Film In My Book. Outstanding movie, a eye opener to some unkown history in the United States. Acting was incredable, Kino always has good productions. If you can find it buy it, Or Rent from Net Flix.
Super Reviewer
A very unique film and a valuable addition to the canon of great films on slavery.
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