Moving Midway
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  • Summary: Godfrey Cheshire's richly observed film about his family's Southern plantation - and the colossal feat of moving it to escape urban sprawl - is a thoughtful and witty look at the lingering remnants and still-powerful mythology of plantation culture and the antebellum South. An award-winning film critic turned film maker, Cheshire uses the relocation of his family's North Carolina plantation house to embark on a surprising and multi-layered journey. While observing the elaborate, arcane preparations for moving a centuries-old house over fields and a rock quarry, unexpected human drama - from both the living and the dead - emerges. And a chance encounter leads Cheshire and his cousins to discover a previously unknown African American branch of the family (who have their own take on Midway and its legacy). Through the use of movies and music, and by turning the camera on himself and his family, Cheshire examines the Southern plantation in American history and culture, and how the racial legacy from the past continues into the present. (First Run Features)… Expand

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  2. Mixed: 1 out of 10
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  1. Chicago Tribune
    Reviewed by: Maureen M. Hart
    100
    In its 98 minutes, film critic Godfrey Cheshire’s documentary Moving Midway records an amazing architectural feat, and that’s the least of its virtues.
  2. New York Magazine (Vulture)
    Reviewed by: David Edelstein
    80
    Moving Midway is thrilling.
  3. New York Daily News
    Reviewed by: Elizabeth Weitzman
    80
    Cheshire refuses to look away, no matter how complicated things get. In fact, it's the tangled, tortured roots that most inspire him, turning this deeply personal film into a potent meditation on our nation's past.
  4. Variety
    Reviewed by: Ronnie Scheib
    60
    Uniquely Southern documentary has become surprisingly timely this election year.

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