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STONES IN THE SUN

Director:

  Patricia Benoit
  

Year Released:

  2012

Jan's Rating:

Rich's Rating:

3.5 out of 5

n/a out of 5

Key Performances:

  Edwidge Danticat
  Michele Marcelin
  James Noel
  Patricia Rhinvil
  Thierry Saintine
Movie Haiku:Members of 3 families with relatives long settled in the USA flee Haiti during the Duvalier Regime in the 1980s. Individual scenes are extremely moving but the whole fails to grow beyond a sum of parts. Most successful are 2 sisters & a married couple. Least successful are the struggles of a son faced with a father who was one of the torturers. NOT YET SEEN BY RICH

ADDITIONAL FF2 INFO ABOUT THIS FILM:

Women filmmakers?

  Yes

Jewish content?

  No

Haiku Posted:

  2014