80
The Hollywood Reporter
It's an unforgettable, visceral journey into the heart of darkness.
Ghosts of Cité Soleil
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This brutal and shocking documentary delves into the gang activity in Cité Soleil, an extremely impoverished and densely populated neighborhood in Haiti's Port-au-Prince metropolitan area. The film focuses on two brothers, 2Pac and Bily, leaders of rival gangs whose blood ties may not be enough to keep their relationship from degenerating into violence.
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Variety by Todd McCarthy
Rough as can be in both content and style, Ghosts will be welcome everywhere tough, provocative docus are shown.
80
The Hollywood Reporter by Sura Wood
It's an unforgettable, visceral journey into the heart of darkness.
75
New York Daily News by Elizabeth Weitzman
Dives into the brutal heart of a place most people would avoid at all cost.
75
Entertainment Weekly by Owen Gleiberman
A spectacularly turbulent portrait of the chaos and bloodshed that have come to define Haiti.
70
Los Angeles Times by Kevin Crust
A forceful documentary set against the 2004 Haitian coup d'état that toppled the government of President Jean-Bertrand Aristide.
70
Salon by Andrew O'Hehir
A moving and profoundly upsetting portrait of life near the bottom of the global power pyramid.
67
The A.V. Club by Noel Murray
If nothing else, Leth shows how wrung-out and careless everyone gets amid constant bloodshed. "We don't need peace," one says. "We need school for our kids. Food. Sleep."
63
TV Guide Magazine by Ken Fox
The underlying political motivation may be unclear, but the violence and desperation of lives lived in something close to hell on earth is terrifyingly clear.
50
Village Voice by J. Hoberman
Ghosts of Cité Soleil is a prismatic, jagged, none too coherent travelogue.
50
The New York Times by A.O. Scott
In spite of occasional gestures in the direction of political or sociological context -- interviews with anti-Aristide activists, news images of battles beyond Cité Soleil -- Mr. Leth is not, in the end, much concerned with offering an analysis of the Haitian situation. Like Lele, he'd rather have a party with the thugs.
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