Trouble the Water

Surviving Katrina With a Big Personality and a Video Camera

If Kimberly Roberts, the dynamo at the center of the documentary “Trouble the Water,” wasn’t a big woman with a great big mouth, her video images of Hurricane Katrina and the floodwaters that washed away her world in 2005 might have ended up as just another pixelated smear on YouTube. Happily for her and the rest of us, the filmmakers Carl Deal and Tia Lessin, both of whom have done time working with Michael Moore, realized that Ms. Roberts was a dream of a documentary subject. She didn’t just fill the frame with her outsize personality and outlaw swagger, she also shook it up with raw images of snatched, saved and lost lives. [...]

di Manohla Dargis, articolo completo (5128 caratteri spazi inclusi) su The New York Times 22 Agosto 2008