Louisiana Story
by Robert J. Flaherty
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Actor: C.P. Guedry, E. Bienvenu, Frank Hardy, Joseph Boudreaux, Lionel Le BlancDirector: Robert J. Flaherty
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono
Format: Black & White, DVD-Video, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 79 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2003-05-20
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Homevision
Movie Reviews of Louisiana Story
Movie Review: Fascinating!
Summary: 5 Stars
This film realistically depicts so many lost pieces of history in a bittersweet story. Filmed in the late 1940's, and using local people as actors, it recalls the beginning of the oil industry, Louisiana's lost natural beauty and a lost way of life. It knits the past and present Louisiana together beautifully. There's also great footage discussing the making of the film. Anyone who loves Louisiana will love this documentary!
Summary of Louisiana Story
Nominated for an Oscar? and the winner of the Pulitzer Prize for its musical score, Robert J. Flaherty's last masterpiece is a visually stunning, lyrical tribute to a land and its people. Flaherty's poetic vision of nature and the human spirit fills every frame of this amazing film. Through the eyes of a young Cajun boy living on the Bayou, Flaherty tells a story of disruption and change when an oil rig brings industry into his pristine world. Listed on the National Film Registry as a national treasure, Louisiana Story has finally been restored to its original glory.Academy AwardT and OscarT are the registered trademarks and service marks of The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
Languid, raw, and majestic, Robert J. Flaherty's final documentary is something to behold. Shot in Cajun country in 1948, Louisiana Story is a tale of modernity intruding on an isolated river habitat for crocodiles, catfish, raccoons, and trappers. Within the setting's primitive and dangerous beauty we meet a shy young hero (played by a non-professional actor; a local river rat named Joseph Boudreaux), who spends lonely days steering his raft and padding along banks with feline authority. Into this rustic paradise comes a noisy oil derrick, pounding pipe through the riverbed toward subterranean pools of black goo. Funded by Standard Oil, Flaherty was accused of selling out and fabricating a pro-development "true story" about the boy's friendship with wildcat oilmen. But such complaints overshoot the poetic luster of Flaherty's nature visions: the mysterious interplay of moonlight, reflective waters, black currents, and swaying reeds. Superficially fact or fiction, this film is its own gorgeous truth. --Tom Keogh
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