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United States · 2022
1h 50m
Director Martin Shore
Starring Snoop Dogg, Aaron Neville, Ledisi, Ian Neville
Genre Documentary, Music
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An exhilarating documentary about the rich musical history of New Orleans and Louisiana; a tribute to the world's most unique cultural jewels orbiting the spheres of jazz, R&B, rap, and more. Legacy musicians and stars of today come together to record a historic new album.
Austin Chronicle by Kimberley Jones
The film’s greatest strength is its unabashed sentimentality. The look on these artists’ faces – their obvious pleasure in being in the room with their heroes, making great music? It’s not just good on the ears; it’s good for the heart.
Film Threat by Michael Talbot-Haynes
Take Me To The River: New Orleans is edited together in a way more organic to music than traditional documentaries, which works wonders.
RogerEbert.com by Peter Sobczynski
Take Me to the River: New Orleans is essentially a feature-length version of a commercial put out by the city’s tourism board hoping to lure visitors by offering them little bits of a lot of different things in the hopes of attracting a wider audience. It has been made with plenty of sincerity but that alone does not guarantee quality filmmaking.
As a film, its mix of interviews, little snippets of street life and Goodman’s drawled history lessons take a back seat to the loose and breezy recording sessions all around town. There’s no re-inventing the wheel, here.