- Studio: Cinema Guild, The
- Release Date: Jul 25, 2008
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- Summary:
- Director: Margaret Brown
- Genre(s): Documentary
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90Smartly edited, utterly engrossing, and as intelligent an examination of American race relations as I've seen.
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80Brown explores a potentially enraging subject--rigidly upheld racial segregation in the country's oldest Mardi Gras celebration, in Mobile, Alabama--but her touch is so unforced and her gaze so open that no one is bruised.
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"They have their Mardi Gras; we have ours," the explanation goes on both sides, but everyone seems to realize it's just a rationalization aimed at covering over Mobile's docile perpetuation of segregation.
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60Order of Myths looks good, and its characters are memorable. It's important to know that the "traditions" extolled by both sides of Mobile involve keeping people apart. But it's not clear at all that Brown is bringing them together.
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