查尔斯·伯内特

Charles Burnett, one of America's most highly regarded independent filmmakers, wrote and directed this domestic drama about a black middle-class family living in South central Los Angeles. However, there are no gangs, no guns, no drugs but instead a lyrical story that draws on folklore and the supernatural. 　　family tensions are already simmering when Harry (Danny Glover) arrives...

AmericanfilmcriticElvisMitchell’skaleidoscopicdocumentarycreatesadefinitivenarrativeoftheBlackrevolutionin1970scinema,fromgenrefilmstosocialrealism—aworkofpainstakingscholarshipthat’salsothoroughlyentertaining,anessentialarchivaldocumentandtestamenttoaperiodofAmericanfilmhistoryunlikelytoberepeated.