list http://www.spout.com/ Recent community activity around Ghosts of Cité Soleil on Spout Copyright 2005-9 Spout, LLC Spout RSS http://www.spout.com/images/SpoutLogoRSS.jpg http://www.spout.com/ 136 30 http://www.spout.com/films/Ghosts_of_Cit_Soleil/290311/default.aspx Title: Ghosts of Cité Soleil
Year: 2007
Director: Asger Leth, Milos Loncarevic
Plot: Danish documentarian Asger Leth’s powerful, disturbing film captures life and death during the last months of Jean-Bertrand Aristide’s regime. In Port-au-Prince’s most desperately poor and dangerous neighborhoods, heavily armed street gangs known as chimères (“ghosts”) serve as the regime’s enforcers, trampling on the legal authority and terrorizing the political opposition. But a new, more brutal counter-revolution may soon end their reign. GHOSTS is as nightmarish, vivid and intense as a Jacobean tragedy; it focuses on the gangster 2pac, a would-be rap star (he has a wildly self-confident phone chat with Wyclef Jean) who, along with his brother (and rival) Bily, demonstrates a psychopathic arrogance and cruelty. But they also speak with heartbreaking eloquence about the plight of their country. Like every other Haitian, they yearn to leave the endless cycle of bloody violence behind. –LG (Denmark/U.S., 2006, 97m)
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]]>Mon, 17 Nov 2008 05:22:19 GMTGhosts of Cité Soleil2007Asger Leth, Milos LoncarevicDanish documentarian Asger Leth’s powerful, disturbing film captures life and death during the last months of Jean-Bertrand Aristide’s regime. In Port-au-Prince’s most desperately poor and dangerous neighborhoods, heavily armed street gangs known as chimères (“ghosts”) serve as the regime’s enforcers, trampling on the legal authority and terrorizing the political opposition. But a new, more brutal counter-revolution may soon end their reign. GHOSTS is as nightmarish, vivid and intense as a Jacobean tragedy; it focuses on the gangster 2pac, a would-be rap star (he has a wildly self-confident phone chat with Wyclef Jean) who, along with his brother (and rival) Bily, demonstrates a psychopathic arrogance and cruelty. But they also speak with heartbreaking eloquence about the plight of their country. Like every other Haitian, they yearn to leave the endless cycle of bloody violence behind. –LG (Denmark/U.S., 2006, 97m)23Tag Target (>10)4112http://www.spout.com/ProductImages/s290311.jpghttp://www.spout.com/films/Ghosts_of_Cit_Soleil/290311/default.aspxFilm http://www.spout.com/groups/Telluride_Film_Festival_2008/Re_Films_I_saw_at_Telluride/144/3029/1/ShowPost.aspx Post By: paul
Post To: Telluride Film Festival 2008
Post Date: 9/22/2006 9:27:36 AM
Body: Hi Aaron. I think I'll weigh in on what I saw as well.Little ChildrenMaldonneLonesomeRemorquesPlaytimeCivic LifeInfamousDay Night Day NightDodsworthI also attended a tribute to Walter Murch and a tribute to Alexander Corda. There were two Romanian short films in the Great Expectations program. The Tube with a Hat by Radu Jude and Marilena de la P7 by Cristian Nemescu. Both were exhilerating because they were distinct, fresh voices from a rather unheard of place in the world of cinema.I really wanted to see Ghosts of Cité Soleil the way everyone I talked to who'd seen it seemed awestruck by it. But my schedule just didn't work out.
]]>Fri, 22 Sep 2006 13:27:36 GMTpaulTelluride Film Festival 20089/22/2006 9:27:36 AMHi Aaron. I think I'll weigh in on what I saw as well.Little ChildrenMaldonneLonesomeRemorquesPlaytimeCivic LifeInfamousDay Night Day NightDodsworthI also attended a tribute to Walter Murch and a tribute to Alexander Corda. There were two Romanian short films in the Great Expectations program. The Tube with a Hat by Radu Jude and Marilena de la P7 by Cristian Nemescu. Both were exhilerating because they were distinct, fresh voices from a rather unheard of place in the world of cinema.I really wanted to see Ghosts of Cité Soleil the way everyone I talked to who'd seen it seemed awestruck by it. But my schedule just didn't work out. http://www.spout.com/blogs/jillyb3/archive/2006/9/10/2915.aspx Post By: Jillyb3
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Post Date: 9/10/2006 8:29:00 PM
Body: I saw this as part of my midnight movie pass at Telluride this year. I've been doing this for years and have come to expect dark depressing films at midnight, always a challenge to like them at that time of night I think. But this film, though dark and depressing, is amazing. The director got some truely suprising and amazing shots for his film, not a typical looking documentary. The subject is a bit hard, and nothing good comes of really anyone in the film but I didn't expect that. I was surprised how much I did enjoy it, I was not looking foward to its grim subject but I am glad I saw it.
]]>Mon, 11 Sep 2006 00:29:00 GMTJillyb3Jillyb3 Blog9/10/2006 8:29:00 PMI saw this as part of my midnight movie pass at Telluride this year. I've been doing this for years and have come to expect dark depressing films at midnight, always a challenge to like them at that time of night I think. But this film, though dark and depressing, is amazing. The director got some truely suprising and amazing shots for his film, not a typical looking documentary. The subject is a bit hard, and nothing good comes of really anyone in the film but I didn't expect that. I was surprised how much I did enjoy it, I was not looking foward to its grim subject but I am glad I saw it. http://www.spout.com/members/0/tags/violence/MemberTagFilms.aspxviolence
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