There's nothing new, exactly, in Gabriella Kessler and Jean-Loïc Portron's despairing but beautiful Braddock America, but the sad truths it illuminates have rarely been put onscreen with such clarity and power. The directors tour the bottomed-out city of Braddock, Pennsylvania, letting the locals -- and the general weedy decrepitude -- make the argument that the powerhouse steel towns that quite literally built this country now stand as potential harbingers of its collapse. Rather than assail the policies of any political party, or blame the unions, or scapegoat immigrant labor, the Braddock residents onscreen pin the death of their mills and livelihood on something like American greed itself.
The something's-gone-mean language of these steelworkers and city council m...
The something's-gone-mean language of these steelworkers and city council m...
- 10/29/2014
- Village Voice
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