Review of Descendant (2022) by Robert Abele for Los Angeles Times — 20 Oct 2022
With Descendant, Brown wisely chooses to be respectfully, poetically alert instead of imposing, as her use of archival footage shot by Hurston suggests: She’s adding to a pioneering Black filmmaker’s anthropological empathy, updating the conversation, witnessing the witnessers.
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This review of Descendant (2022) was written by Robert Abele and published by Los Angeles Times on 20 Oct 2022.
Descendant has generally received positive reviews.
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