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Paris Is Burning dives into '80s transgender subculture, with the understated camera allowing this world to flourish and the people to speak (and dance) for themselves.
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One emerges from this film not only with a new vocabulary and a fresh way of viewing the straight world but with a bracing object lesson in understanding what society "role models" are all about. Mar 31, 2016 | Full Review…
One emerges from this film not only with a new vocabulary and a fresh way of viewing the straight world but with a bracing object lesson in understanding what society "role models" are all about.
Jonathan Rosenbaum
More than anything, Paris is Burning is a thoroughly entertaining performance film. Beneath the theatrical trappings, though, sits layer after layer of poverty and abuse. Livingston manages to navigate those dueling moods of celebration and depression. Jul 5, 2019 | Rating: 4/5 | Full Review…
More than anything, Paris is Burning is a thoroughly entertaining performance film. Beneath the theatrical trappings, though, sits layer after layer of poverty and abuse. Livingston manages to navigate those dueling moods of celebration and depression.
Daniel Barnes
Paris Is Burning is a masterpiece that works as well as it does because its point of view is not that of someone instructing the audience like a tenured professor. Jul 3, 2019 | Full Review…
Paris Is Burning is a masterpiece that works as well as it does because its point of view is not that of someone instructing the audience like a tenured professor.
David Bax
At times intimate and raw, Paris is Burning tries to capture the powerful essence of walking the floor to thunderous cheers and sometimes boos. Jun 26, 2019 | Full Review…
At times intimate and raw, Paris is Burning tries to capture the powerful essence of walking the floor to thunderous cheers and sometimes boos.
Glenn Heath Jr.
For anyone who's ever felt like an outsider, Paris is Burning is a reassuring reminder that someone somewhere totally gets you. Jun 17, 2019 | Full Review…
For anyone who's ever felt like an outsider, Paris is Burning is a reassuring reminder that someone somewhere totally gets you.
Pat Mullen
Jennie Livingston's doc, shot over seven years is nostalgic now but just as powerful. Jun 13, 2019 | Full Review…
Jennie Livingston's doc, shot over seven years is nostalgic now but just as powerful.
Anne Brodie
A film about resistance, passion and the determined reclamation of cultural space, Paris Is Burning has been tremendously influential, and is essential viewing for any student of the issues it concerns or of the documentary form. May 3, 2018 | Rating: 4/5 | Full Review…
A film about resistance, passion and the determined reclamation of cultural space, Paris Is Burning has been tremendously influential, and is essential viewing for any student of the issues it concerns or of the documentary form.
Jennie Kermode
Livingston's film is a poignant look at black and Latinx gay and transgender communities, dissecting race and class, gender and sexuality. Mar 4, 2017 | Rating: A | Full Review…
Livingston's film is a poignant look at black and Latinx gay and transgender communities, dissecting race and class, gender and sexuality.
Glenn Dunks
The directness and honesty of moment after moment strike back at peppily 'cheerful' white America's model-world. Blazes forth the importance, for a marginalized community, of adopting a fervid, fiery attitude all its own. Sep 30, 2016 | Full Review…
The directness and honesty of moment after moment strike back at peppily 'cheerful' white America's model-world. Blazes forth the importance, for a marginalized community, of adopting a fervid, fiery attitude all its own.
Brian Gibson
Livingston is smart enough to realize that her subjects are best equipped to explain themselves. Jul 10, 2009 | Rating: 62/100 | Full Review…
Livingston is smart enough to realize that her subjects are best equipped to explain themselves.
Jeremy Heilman
This landmark docu celebrates the resourcefulness of a group that's subcultural but not truly countercultural--its denizens long to become members of the society they imitate, operating at its periphery. Oct 6, 2006 | Rating: A- | Full Review…
This landmark docu celebrates the resourcefulness of a group that's subcultural but not truly countercultural--its denizens long to become members of the society they imitate, operating at its periphery.
Emanuel Levy
The beauty of the film is Livingston's nonjudgmental, accommodating camera. Sep 10, 2005 | Rating: 3/4 | Full Review…
The beauty of the film is Livingston's nonjudgmental, accommodating camera.
Fernando F. Croce
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