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Ghosts of Cité Soleil
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Ghosts of Cité Soleil reviews
Critic Score
Metascore: 64 Metascore out of 100
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8.0 out of 10
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MPAA RATING: Not Rated

Starring Winson '2Pac' Jean, Wyclef Jean, James 'Bily' Petit Frère, and Éleonore 'Lele' Senlis

Billed as a Caribbean epic of family, love and violence, this film takes us inside the lives of the notorious gang leaders who dominate the Haitian slum of Cite Soleil. (ThinkFilm)


GENRE(S): Action  |  Documentary  |  Drama  |  Foreign  |  Musical  |  War  
WRITTEN BY: Asger Leth  
DIRECTED BY: Asger Leth
Milos Loncarevic (co-director)
 
RELEASE DATE: Theatrical: June 27, 2007 
RUNNING TIME: 85 minutes, Color 
ORIGIN: Denmark / USA 
LANGUAGE(S): Haitian / English / French (with English subtitles) 

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80
Variety Todd McCarthy
Rough as can be in both content and style, Ghosts will be welcome everywhere tough, provocative docus are shown.
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80
The Hollywood Reporter Sura Wood
It's an unforgettable, visceral journey into the heart of darkness.
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75
Entertainment Weekly Owen Gleiberman
A spectacularly turbulent portrait of the chaos and bloodshed that have come to define Haiti.
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75
New York Daily News Elizabeth Weitzman
Dives into the brutal heart of a place most people would avoid at all cost.
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70
Los Angeles Times Kevin Crust
A forceful documentary set against the 2004 Haitian coup d'état that toppled the government of President Jean-Bertrand Aristide.
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70
Salon.com Andrew O'Hehir
A moving and profoundly upsetting portrait of life near the bottom of the global power pyramid.
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67
The Onion (A.V. Club) Noel Murray
If nothing else, Leth shows how wrung-out and careless everyone gets amid constant bloodshed. "We don't need peace," one says. "We need school for our kids. Food. Sleep."
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63
TV Guide Ken Fox
The underlying political motivation may be unclear, but the violence and desperation of lives lived in something close to hell on earth is terrifyingly clear.
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50
The New York Times A.O. Scott
In spite of occasional gestures in the direction of political or sociological context -- interviews with anti-Aristide activists, news images of battles beyond Cité Soleil -- Mr. Leth is not, in the end, much concerned with offering an analysis of the Haitian situation. Like Lele, he'd rather have a party with the thugs.
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50
Village Voice J. Hoberman
Ghosts of Cité Soleil is a prismatic, jagged, none too coherent travelogue.
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