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Hale County This Morning, This Evening

Name: Hale County This Morning, This Evening
Genre: Documentary
Released: September 14, 2018
Duration: 76 min
Rating: 85
Cast: Bert Williams, Daniel Collins, Latrenda 'Boosie' Ash, Quincy Bryant

2018

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Hale County This Morning, This Evening

Movie Details & Credits

Cinema Guild | Release Date: September 14, 2018 | Not Rated

Starring: Bert Williams, Daniel Collins, Latrenda 'Boosie' Ash, Quincy Bryant

Summary: An inspired and intimate portrait of a place and its people, Hale County This Morning, This Evening looks at the lives of Daniel Collins and Quincy Bryant, two young African American men from rural Hale County, Alabama, over the course of five years. Collins attends college in search of opportunity while Bryant becomes a father to anAn inspired and intimate portrait of a place and its people, Hale County This Morning, This Evening looks at the lives of Daniel Collins and Quincy Bryant, two young African American men from rural Hale County, Alabama, over the course of five years. Collins attends college in search of opportunity while Bryant becomes a father to an energetic son in an open-ended, poetic form that privileges the patiently observed interstices of their lives. The audience is invited to experience the mundane and monumental, birth and death, the quotidian and the sublime. These moments combine to communicate the region’s deep culture and provide glimpses of the complex ways the African American community’s collective image is integrated into America’s visual imagination. [Cinema Guild]… Expand

Director: RaMell Ross

Genre(s): Documentary

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 76 min

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Glenn Kenny

Sep 13, 2018

The filmmaker’s poetic logic is inextricable from his consciousness of race and community, and of his function and potential as an artist grappling with his own circumstances and those of the people he’s depicting. “Hale County This Morning, This Evening” is not a long film, but it contains whole worlds. Read full review

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The Guardian Peter Bradshaw

Jan 17, 2019

There is something visionary in this film. Read full review

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Original-Cin Liam Lacey

Jan 24, 2019

Hale County, in the best sense, is the kind of film that asks more questions than it provides answers for. Read full review

LarsenOnFilm Josh Larsen

Dec 5, 2018

A very particular sort of camera is at work in Hale County This Morning, This Evening. It peers from unconventional angles, lingers on images longer than they at first seem to deserve, and generally offers a perspective that is at once unremarkable, given the everyday subject matter, and revealing. Read full review

The Film Stage Daniel Schindel

Aug 29, 2018

Structurally, Hale County This Morning, This Evening does not do much to distinguish itself from other contemporary vérité documentaries which focus on quotidian details within a certain milieu. But even so, it still finds value in the unique incidents it captures. Read full review

San Francisco Chronicle David Lewis

Nov 18, 2018

Ross doesn’t gloss over the challenges facing the rural black county, but he finds a strong spirit there, even as the storm clouds hover. Read full review

Film Journal International Maria Garcia

Sep 13, 2018

Ross’ debut is scattershot, and lacking in the consistent purpose that articulates a filmmaker’s intent. Read full review

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Brent_Marchant

Feb 1, 2019

This painfully slow, unfocused documentary about the lives of poor, Southern rural African-Americans will, regrettably, leave viewers waiting for the ending. Through the use of images, pretentious segment heading graphics and underdeveloped observations from the film's subjects alone, withThis painfully slow, unfocused documentary about the lives of poor, Southern rural African-Americans will, regrettably, leave viewers waiting for the ending. Through the use of images, pretentious segment heading graphics and underdeveloped observations from the film's subjects alone, with no voiceover narration, director RaMell Ross has attempted to let the material speak for itself, an approach not unlike what's seen in such cinematic tone poems as "Samsara." Unfortunately, the themes that the filmmaker claims he was trying to depict don't come through as clearly and pointedly as he contends. The approach is so "slice of life" that it's difficult to grasp what he was really aiming for. Overlong, woefully unedited sequences of incidental events, the inclusion of beautiful but basically pointless nature shots, excessive use of gimmicky time-lapse photography and a dearth of meaningful insights from the film's subjects combine to make for a production that leaves the audience wanting, as well as wondering what this film is truly supposed to be about. What's most disappointing, though, is that this offering has garnered an Oscar nomination for best documentary feature at the expense of other, better entrants -- truly unfortunate.… Expand

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marbie73

Feb 20, 2019

The most pointless documentary ever made.There is no story to speak of just a bunch of random shots spliced together that serve no useful purpose.The audience learns virtually nothing about the three people whose stories are being told.It is an outright travesty that this film was nominatedThe most pointless documentary ever made.There is no story to speak of just a bunch of random shots spliced together that serve no useful purpose.The audience learns virtually nothing about the three people whose stories are being told.It is an outright travesty that this film was nominated over such a great film as Won't You Be Neighbor.The best words to describe this movie are pretentious and meandering.… Expand

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