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Trudell
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Based on 14 critic reviews
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Movie Info
Genre(s): Documentary
Written by: Russell Friedenberg
Directed by: Heather Rae
Release Date:
Theatrical: February 24, 2006
DVD: March 20, 2007
Running Time: 75 minutes, Color
Origin: USA
Summary
RATING: Not Rated
Starring John Trudell, Robert Redford, Kris Kristofferson, Sam Shepard, Amy Ray, Val Kilmer, Jackson Browne, Darelle 'Dino' Butler, Wilma Mankiller, and Bonnie Raitt
In this documentary filmmaker Heather Rae the engaging life story of Native American poet-prophet-activist John Trudell and his heartfelt message of active, personal responsibility to the earth, all of its inhabitants and our descendents. (Appaloosa Pictures)
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What The Critics Said
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San Francisco Chronicle Walter Addiego
It's an intriguing portrait, but it makes no pretense at objectivity, erring on the side of hero worship.
Read Full Review >Boston Globe Erin Meister
A thought-provoking and graceful portrait of a tenacious peace warrior whose frankness is his greatest weapon.
Read Full Review >Village Voice Mark Holcomb
Unfortunately, Rae's film is split down the middle, and the appeal of its latter half depends on your tolerance for earnest politico-poetry set to wailing rock guitar and Native American chants and extraneously endorsed by celebrity talking heads. The backstory portion of the film, though, is riveting.
Read Full Review >TV Guide Ken Fox
Rae's 80-minute film isn't able to answer every question or flesh out important details of these events, and she spends more time on Trudell's artistic endeavors than on his direct political action.
Read Full Review >The New York Times Jeannette Catsoulis
No one in the film has a bad word to say about Mr. Trudell, despite his 17,000-page F.B.I. dossier; and by the time Robert Redford assures us that meeting him is not dissimilar to meeting the Dalai Lama, you may feel that all this worship does not do justice to an unusually stormy and complicated life.
Read Full Review >Variety Joe Leydon
More hagiography than history, Heather Rae's long-in-production portrait of Native American activist and poet John Trudell has the uncritically admiring feel of authorized biography.
Read Full Review >The Onion (A.V. Club) Noel Murray
Anyone looking for history lessons from Rae's documentary will have to be patient and alert enough to pick through the poetry.
Read Full Review >The Hollywood Reporter Sheri Linden
Feels padded in some places, truncated in others. It also feels too respectful, especially when its subject is such a deep thinker and questioner of authority.
Read Full Review >New York Daily News Elizabeth Weitzman
Rae does offer a riveting introduction to the American Indian civil rights movement.
Read Full Review >Los Angeles Times Kenneth Turan
Unfortunately, absent a more objective context, Trudell's gnomic utterances do little to support those sentiments. By preaching so relentlessly to the choir, this film misses an opportunity to show what got them to sing in the first place.
Read Full Review >LA Weekly Tim Grierson
How could a movie about someone with one of the nation's longest FBI files be this dull?
Read Full Review >Austin Chronicle Marjorie Baumgarten
The man whom the FBI described as "extremely eloquent, therefore extremely dangerous" here seems about as threatening as Mother Teresa.
Read Full Review >Film Threat Bob Westal
While Trudell has a few interesting and emotional moments in its second half, from the start it is badly hobbled by its worshipful tone.
Read Full Review >New York Post V.A. Musetto
Politics aside, Trudell plays like an infomercial for its subject rather than a serious examination of the man and his beliefs.
Read Full Review >What Our Users Said
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