Daughters of the Dust
1991, Drama, 1h 54m
44 Reviews 1,000+ RatingsWhat to know
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. Read critic reviews
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Nana Peazant
Eula Peazant
Eli Peazant
Haagar Peazant
Yellow Mary
Myown Peazant
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Critic Reviews for Daughters of the Dust
All Critics (44) | Top Critics (20) | Fresh (43) | Rotten (1)
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Dash's project is similar to Mr. Snead's ... Chronicling the islanders' way of life - their practices, personalities and stories - before it's gone forever.
December 3, 2020 | Rating: 3.5 | Full Review… -
Dash drew on her own family history to fashion Daughters of the Dust and throughout, there's an unshakable sense that the viewer is being called to bear witness. Heed the call.
June 13, 2017 | Rating: 5/5 | Full Review… -
This is balletic, operatic cinema, and a celebration of cinema itself.
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This elegiac, dreamlike drama set on the Sea Islands off South Carolina in 1902 has an iron core of painful history
June 2, 2017 | Rating: 4/5 | Full Review… -
The film offers a poetic political vision of a society falling between the stools of progression and regression, asking whether standing off against the travesties of the antebellum American South is the only way to attain true freedom.
June 1, 2017 | Rating: 4/5 | Full Review… -
It is a mysterious, fabular and sometimes dreamlike film with its own theatrical poise.
May 31, 2017 | Rating: 5/5 | Full Review…
Audience Reviews for Daughters of the Dust
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Oct 13, 2008A 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.Bruce B Super Reviewer
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Feb 02, 2008A very unique film and a valuable addition to the canon of great films on slavery.John B Super Reviewer
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Jan 23, 2008Director 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.Byron B Super Reviewer
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