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Ghosts of Cité Soleil

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Movie Info

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

Summary

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)

What The Critics Said

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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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What Our Users Said

The average user rating for this movie is 8.0 (out of 10) based on 1 User Votes

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