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It's an unforgettable, visceral journey into the heart of darkness.
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80Rough as can be in both content and style, Ghosts will be welcome everywhere tough, provocative docus are shown.
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75Dives into the brutal heart of a place most people would avoid at all cost.
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75A spectacularly turbulent portrait of the chaos and bloodshed that have come to define Haiti.
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70A moving and profoundly upsetting portrait of life near the bottom of the global power pyramid.
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70A forceful documentary set against the 2004 Haitian coup d'état that toppled the government of President Jean-Bertrand Aristide.
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67If 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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63The 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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50Ghosts of Cité Soleil is a prismatic, jagged, none too coherent travelogue.
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50In 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.