Bright Leaves
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DVD Details
- Rated: Not Rated
- Run Time: 1 hours, 45 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: June 21, 2005
- Originally Released: 2004
- Label: First Run Features
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Directed by | Ross McElwee | |
Subject: | Allan Gurganus & Patricia Neal | |
Produced by | Ross McElwee | |
Director of Photography: | Ross McElwee |
Entertainment Reviews:
Rating: 3/4 --
A gently provocative film diary about tobacco and its mixed legacy.
Philadelphia Inquirer
BRIGHT LEAVES leaves you feeling invigorated by the boundless curiosity, humor and high spirits of its creator.
New York Times
Classic McElwee blending together the personal and the political in his native North Carolina, to which he something of the same ambivalent relation that Faulkner, another son of the South, had to Mississippi.
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[A] lovingly original look at irony-laced history, local economy [and] health issues...
USA Today
A meandering riff on the dangerous allure of smoking, and more interestingly a meditation on the way motion pictures can preserve our life experiences-- but only to a point.
Philadelphia Weekly
Rating: 3/4 --
Bright Leaves is a beguiling film. Watching it is like spending time with an old, somewhat chatty but endearing friend.
Chicago Tribune
Rating: B+ --
Touches on serious matters with a sly, self-deprecating sense of humor that makes receiving its messages a pleasure rather than a chore.
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Product Description:
Ross McElwee directs this autobiographical documentary about his family's roots in the tobacco business in North Carolina. Taking a sabbatical from his home in Boston, he offers a culturally interesting history of the South as viewed through the biggest, wealthiest tobacco enterprises. Meanwhile, he examines a Hollywood movie that was based on the same topic, BRIGHT LEAF, the 1950 film set in 1894's tobacco-ruled South, which stars Gary Cooper and Lauren Bacall and was directed by Michael Curtiz (CASABLANCA). Though McElwee doesn't have firm proof, he speculates that the film is actually based on his great grandfather's rise and fall in the tobacco industry, and he splices in segments of that film to illustrate some of his historical points. It goes without saying that BRIGHT LEAVES' dominant purpose, and strongest message, is anti-smoking, and in its grimmer moments the film shows hospitalized victims of smoking-related illnesses, and conducts interviews with those who have lost dear ones to lung cancer. Packaged as an exploratory and educational dabble into McElwee's past, this documentary is enjoyable and enlightening.
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- Sales Rank: 102,521
- UPC: 720229911610
- Shipping Weight: 0.29/lbs (approx)
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