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By Melissa Anderson (387) for Village Voice (8,525) on 17 Nov 2016

Daughters of the Dust abounds with stunning motifs and tableaux, the iconography seemingly sourced from dreams as much as from history and folklore…

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By Clayton Dillard (209) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 14 Nov 2016

It's as much a cinematic probe, and a challenge to mythologizing past eras, as it is an ancestral history lesson…

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By Josh Larsen (2,042) for LarsenOnFilm (1,412) on 06 Oct 2016

thrums with a truly independent spirit and a dreamy ebullience…

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By Emanuel Levy (2,948) for EmanuelLevy.Com (2,771) on 06 Apr 2011

Centering on African-American women, Julie Dash's original feature was a highlight of indie cinema in the early 1990s…

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By Patricia Smith (3) for Boston Globe (6,852) on 25 Dec 2010

Daughters of the Dust abounds with stunning motifs and tableaux, the iconography seemingly sourced from dreams as much as from history and…

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By Kenneth Turan (2,323) for Los Angeles Times (12,977) on 01 Jun 2009

A poetic attempt to re-create a bygone culture as not only a role model for the present but also a positive mythology for the future, the movie's…

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By Richard Brody (868) for The New Yorker (1,837) on 10 Mar 2009

There’s nothing derivative about Dash’s work; every image, every moment is a full creation…

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By Jonathan Rosenbaum (1,657) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 09 Feb 2007

The resources of the beautiful locations are exploited to the utmost, and [director Julie] Dash can be credited with an original, daring, and…

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By Rita Kempley (781) for Washington Post (9,851) on 02 Feb 2006

In the hands of director Julie Dash and photographer Arthur Jafa, this nonlinear film becomes visual poetry, a wedding of imagery and rhythm…

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By Catriona O'shaughnessy (2) for Time Out (7,510) on 26 Jan 2006

Steeped in symbolism, superstition and myth, this disconcertingly original film is structured in tableaux which jump through time…

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By Stephen Holden (1,707) for The New York Times (9,847) on 14 Jan 2006

For all its harsh allusions to slavery and hardship, the film is an extended, wildly lyrical meditation on the power of African cultural iconography…

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By Tom Dawson (244) for Total Film (3,532) on 15 Jan 2005

Drawing on their traditions of oral storytelling, it’s lushly photographed and costumed, plus dreamily confusing, yet it vividly brings a…

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By Roger Ebert (5,190) for Chicago Sun-Times (7,580) on 09 Aug 2001

The film doesn't tell a story in any conventional sense. It tells of feelings…

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By Rick Groen (1,350) for The Globe and Mail (Toronto) (4,018) on 15 Jul 1994

This is a work of art that's as much a cinematic probe, and a challenge to mythologizing past eras, as it is an ancestral history lesson…

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By Marjorie Baumgarten (1,950) for Austin Chronicle (7,653) on 04 Dec 1991

Neither slave nor mammy, junkie nor maid, these dawn-of-the-twentieth century African-American women are an unstereotypical breed unto themselves…

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