- [Editor's note: This was originally published on 02.15.2009] A powerful documentary about a 14 acre garden in Los Angeles that was at the center of a decade long dispute, The Garden details how a piece of land in South Central which was once considered a wasteland by the owner, good for garbage or warehouses by the city, but was turned into a lush garden by a mostly Latino community. After a dubious deal between the city and the owner, the gardeners are driven out but not without a fight which is at heart of this film by multi-tasking writer and director Scott Hamilton Kennedy. With a story as complex and rich as you would expect it in any piece of great literature full with noble characters, shady characters and everything in between. The complex documentary film (one of the five Academy Award nominees for Best Doc) equally works as a social commentary of culture clashes between the powerful rich and helpless poor,
- 5/4/2009
- IONCINEMA.com
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