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nymag.com - 8/21/2008

Trouble the Water - I Served the King of England - Hamlet 2 - The Rocker -- New York Magazine Movie Review

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imberly Roberts lost her mother to AIDS when she was 13; lived on the street; sold cocaine; straightened out her life; married an addict (now clean) whose face she d slashed with a razor blade; wrote vivid rap songs about all she d survived; and wound up residing in New Orleans predominantly African-American Ninth Ward—where, on August 29, 2005, she turned her camcorder on marooned friends and ...

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GreenCine Daily — ... would have been pretty good bordering on good instead of just okay," writes David Edelstein in New York. ...

Critic wrangle: "Trouble the Water."
IFC: Indie Eye — ... at Salon. "We can have a 'national conversation about race' until we all turn blue and keel over from boredom -- Did we have it already? If so, what did we say? -- but people like Kim and Scott Roberts don't generally have their own voices, or any other kind of autonomy." "In one scene," writes New York's David Edelstein, "Kimberly and fellow refugees line up for FEMA assistance at some kind of ranch, where a sign overhead points to Gate B--CATTLE ENTRANCE. You can't make this stuff up. You can, however, capture it on film for all time. Trouble the Water is ...

Trouble The Water Gives One Woman's Katrina Experience Airtime [Critical Mass]
Jezebel — ... aims her palm-sized camera at her backyard, at the neighbor passed out on his porch, at the kids laughing off the storm warnings in the street. A dog whimpers, an Army truck creeps by, the sky fades to gray, a drizzle begins. Those cunning directors who've turned shaky-cam mock-vérité into a horror-movie cliché waste a lot of effort planting such "stray" details; they don't have the thing that gives Kimberly's footage its eerie force—genuine uncertainty about what's going to happen. New York Magazine : As someone of bounteous hope but little (formal) faith, I found Kimberly’s ...