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| BRIGHT LEAVES | Search all of phase9.tv | |||
Year: 2003 USA: First Run Features UK: ICA Projects Cast: Ross McElwee, Patricia Neal, Charleen Swansea Director: Ross McElwee Country: USA USA: 105 mins UK: 107 mins USA Release Date: 25 August 2004 (Limited Release - New York) UK Release Date: 5 November 2004 (Limited Release - wider) UK Release Date: 8 October 2004 (Limited Release - London) Movie reviews Official website Synopsis North Carolina produces more tobacco than any other state in America. This film describes a journey taken across the social, economic and psychological tobacco terrain of North Carolina by a native Carolinian whose great-grandfather created the famous brand of tobacco known as "Bull Durham." BRIGHT LEAVES is a subjective, autobiographical meditation on the allure of cigarettes and their troubling legacy for the state of North Carolina. It's about loss and preservation, addiction and denial. And it's about filmmaking - home movie, documentary, and fiction filmmaking - as the filmmaker fences with the legacy of an obscure Hollywood melodrama that is purportedly based on his great-grandfather's life. BRIGHT LEAVES explores the notion of legacy - what one generation passes down to the next - and how this can be a particularly complicated topic when the legacy under discussion is a Southern one and is tied to tobacco. |
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