Louisiana Story DVD
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 Rating: - Louisiana Story a worthwhile acquisition
It's nice to have Louisiana Story readily available at the Reel price, about a third of what you would pay for the Criterion edition. I've not seen the latter, so I have no basis for comparison. The Reel edition does capture the poetry in Robert Flaherty's cinematic imagery and gives you some idea why Virgil Thomson's music score won a Pulitzer Prize, unprecented for film music. As filmmaker, Flaherty makes no overt statement on the question of whether the bayou will revert to its unspoiled natural state when the oil drillers leave (a hot issue today in Louisiana), but he provides plenty of visual evidence to allow the viewer to make up his own mind. I wish the digital remastering had been a little cleaner and more precisely focused, though again I have no basis for comparison. This product was certainly well worth my $9.95 investment.

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