A young Cajun boy named Alexander Napolean Ulysses Latour spends his time on a Louisiana bayou. There he plays, fishes and hunts, worrying only about the alligators which infest its waters. The boy's innocent routine changes forever when his father signs a lease agreement with an oil company which brings a derrick into their corner of the bayou.... (Full plot summary below)
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A young Cajun boy named Alexander Napolean Ulysses Latour spends his time on a Louisiana bayou. There he plays, fishes and hunts, worrying only about the alligators which infest its waters. The boy's innocent routine changes forever when his father signs a lease agreement with an oil company which brings a derrick into their corner of the bayou.
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| Video-Reviewmaster.comSteve CrumOne of all time best, and one of earliest, documentaries; with Robert Flaherty's deft style. |
| New York TimesBosley CrowtherThe ring of sincerity is clear in Flaherty's film. |
| New YorkerMichael SragowA powerful, swooning visualization of a wilderness childhood. |
| VarietyVariety StaffIt has a slender, appealing story, moments of agonizing suspense, vivid atmosphere and superlative photography. |
| Not Coming to a Theater Near YouMatt Bailey...the film has some of the most beautiful images I've ever seen in a movie yet, at the same time, some of the clunkiest, most awkwardly staged scenes I've ever seen outside of my high school's production of Oklahoma. |
| Q Network Film DeskJames KendrickIt displays many of Flaherty's great strengths as a filmmaker, but it also showcases some of his weaknesses, which makes it an uneven film that is not in league with his earlier works. |
| User ReviewSean CStrikes an odd balance of moods. Whether focusing on the untamed wild of the bayou or the complicated workings of the rig, the tone is simultaneously wondrous and dangerous. The balance is felt in the ebb and flow of tension in the narrative, the music, and the luminous cinematography. Even the way the actors are constantly smiling no matter what the circumstances adds to the unsettling-yet-bubbly atmosphere. The story itself is a bit thin and unsatisfying, however. |
| User ReviewAdam RI wish they'd build an oil well in my backyard. |
| User ReviewThomas PDocumentaries are always pilloried for how "true" they are. This isn't a story about an oil well, it's a picture of a way of life, and there it succeeds. Beautifully shot and very touching, it was financed by Standard Oil and certainly doesn't show them in a bad light. But they didn't ruin the bayou, the Corps of Engineers did. Lovely to watch, but I'd recommend Man of Aran or Nanook of the North over it. |
| User ReviewPrivate UA striking nonfiction work by Robert Flaherty of "Nanook of the North" fame. The journalist in me kept wondering how much of this was staged/contrived, but it's undeniably affecting. |
