What Is Democracy
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DVD Details
- Rated: Not Rated
- Run Time: 1 hours, 47 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: May 14, 2019
- Originally Released: 2018
- Label: Zeitgeist Films
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Directed by | Astra Taylor | |
Composition by | Heather McIntosh |
Entertainment Reviews:
Unfocused but consistently engaging.
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Hollywood Reporter
One could imagine the place of Taylor's film in the classroom, though one would first have to imagine the kind of classroom this country appears bent on destroying.
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Virginia Quarterly Review
[Taylor] presents an inclusive and necessary debate, asking whether democracy today really is of, by, and for the people, and if it ever was.
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Chicago Reader
[A] deliberate challenge to complacency -- and, as a result, it’s a great watch.
The Guardian
Rating: 2/4 --
The impact may have been greater had Taylor and editor Robert Kennedy trimmed some rough edges and leaned further into the more effective asides.
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Cambridge Day
Taylor's film demonstrates how democracy sometimes yields lemon when the fields bear finer fruits. It's up to us to take those lemons and make lemonade-and, quite frankly, to add the nip or two of gin that makes it tolerable.
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POV Magazine
[A] hugely ambitious documentary from the Canadian director Astra Taylor...
New York Times
Product Description:
Writer-director Astra Taylor's documentary spans ancient Greece, the 1960s civil rights movement, and contemporary world affairs in its appraisal of the value of democracy. Drawing from Plato, Renaissance art, and American philosopher Cornel West, it analyses the costs, challenges, and virtues of the democratic experiment.
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