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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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This elegiac, dreamlike drama set on the Sea Islands off South Carolina in 1902 has an iron core of painful history Jun 2, 2017 | Rating: 4/5 | Full Review…
This elegiac, dreamlike drama set on the Sea Islands off South Carolina in 1902 has an iron core of painful history
Kate Muir
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. Jun 1, 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.
David Jenkins
It is a mysterious, fabular and sometimes dreamlike film with its own theatrical poise. May 31, 2017 | Rating: 5/5 | Full Review…
It is a mysterious, fabular and sometimes dreamlike film with its own theatrical poise.
Peter Bradshaw
Even when the pace slows to a crawl, the island's gentle mood is appealing. Dec 1, 2016 | Full Review…
Even when the pace slows to a crawl, the island's gentle mood is appealing.
Jay Boyar
An absorbing, spirited film that merits considerable respect. Dec 1, 2016 | Rating: 3/4 | Full Review…
An absorbing, spirited film that merits considerable respect.
Clifford Terry
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. Dec 1, 2016 | Rating: 4/4 | Full Review…
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.
Durga Chew-Bose
The film has a flowing, lyrical structure that slowly envelops you, immersing you in a lost language, culture and time, and the images of African-American women in white dresses and starched collars playing on a lonely beach earn their iconic status. Apr 1, 2019 | Rating: 4/5 | Full Review…
The film has a flowing, lyrical structure that slowly envelops you, immersing you in a lost language, culture and time, and the images of African-American women in white dresses and starched collars playing on a lonely beach earn their iconic status.
Daniel Barnes
Visually beautiful classic. Dec 27, 2018 | Full Review…
Visually beautiful classic.
Michael E. Grost
Dash's seminal drama is that rare ensemble piece truly focused on the collective, how individuals complicate and contradict notions of community. Aug 21, 2018 | Full Review…
Dash's seminal drama is that rare ensemble piece truly focused on the collective, how individuals complicate and contradict notions of community.
Glenn Heath Jr.
You must watch Daughters because you will not find a film like it anywhere. It's like some rare bird that's not only striking because of its unusual colors but because of the perfection of its form. Aug 3, 2018 | Full Review…
You must watch Daughters because you will not find a film like it anywhere. It's like some rare bird that's not only striking because of its unusual colors but because of the perfection of its form.
Charles Mudede
Daughters damns precedent altogether, sidestepping the broad strokes of African-American history familiar from so many textbook historical dramas set during the era of antebellum slavery or the '60s Civil Rights Movement. Oct 17, 2017 | Full Review…
Daughters damns precedent altogether, sidestepping the broad strokes of African-American history familiar from so many textbook historical dramas set during the era of antebellum slavery or the '60s Civil Rights Movement.
Steve Macfarlane
A ravishingly beautiful work, it presents the historically grounded story of a multi-generational Gullah family reuniting on an island off South Carolina's coast. Aug 28, 2017 | Full Review…
A ravishingly beautiful work, it presents the historically grounded story of a multi-generational Gullah family reuniting on an island off South Carolina's coast.
Diane Carson
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.
Super Reviewer
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.
A very unique film and a valuable addition to the canon of great films on slavery.
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