Despair and Poetry at Margins of Society
di Manohla Dargis The New York Times
The critic and historian Norman M. Klein has called Los Angeles “the most photographed and least remembered city in the world.” Given the truth of this, the restoration and long-delayed commercial release of “The Exiles,” a 1961 film about a largely forgotten corner of that deceptively bright city, is nothing less than a welcome act of defiant remembrance.
Begun in the late 1950s in a long-gone area of downtown Los Angeles, “The Exiles” was a three-year-plus labor of love for its director, writer and producer, Kent Mackenzie. [...]
di Manohla Dargis, articolo completo (4797 caratteri spazi inclusi) su The New York Times 11 Luglio 2008
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