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- 2004
- Not Rated
- First Run Features
- 1 h 47 m
- 2004
- Not Rated
- First Run Features
- 1 h 47 m
Summary This documentary is a subjective, autobiographical meditation on the allure of cigarettes and their troubling legacy for the state of North Carolina. (First Run Features)
Directed By: Ross McElwee
Written By: Ross McElwee
- 2004
- Not Rated
- First Run Features
- 1 h 47 m
- 2004
- Not Rated
- First Run Features
- 1 h 47 m
Bright Leaves
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Summary This documentary is a subjective, autobiographical meditation on the allure of cigarettes and their troubling legacy for the state of North Carolina. (First Run Features)
Directed By: Ross McElwee
Written By: Ross McElwee
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 21 Critic Reviews
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 21 Critic Reviews
79
95% Positive
20 Reviews
20 Reviews
5% Mixed
1 Review
1 Review
0% Negative
0 Reviews
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Bright Leaves' takes on a sizable foe -- in this case, big tobacco -- but with such grace and wit that his message never seems medicinal.
While making his new film, he (McElwee) imagines that his boy is looking back at his screen image from some distant point in the future, when McElwee himself is gone. No child of a moviemaker could ask for a more beautiful bequest.
McElwee fans will welcome back the wonderful Charleen, his former teacher and lifelong friend, older and mellower but as beguiling and free-spirited as ever.
Another of his (McElwee) beguiling "personal chronicle" movies.
One reason Bright Leaves is McElwee's best film since "Sherman's March" is the richness of his reflections on this multifaceted material.
Results in a weightless film. Worse still, McElwee's languid tone makes his journey lack conviction.
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Production Company
Channel 4 Television Corporation,
Homemade Movies,
WGBH
Release Date Aug 25, 2004
Duration 1 h 47 m
Rating Not Rated
Genres
Website
http://www.brightleaves.com/
Awards
Writers Guild of America, USA
• 1 Nomination
Directors Guild of America, USA
• 1 Nomination
Film Independent Spirit Awards
• 1 Nomination
