Mississippi Burning (1988)
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Country: US
Technical: col 127m
Director: Alan Parker
Cast: Gene Hackman, Willem Dafoe, Frances McDormand, Brad Dourif
Synopsis:
1964: FBI men investigate the disappearance of three civil rights workers in a Mississippi town.
Review:
The anger gradually mounts in this shocking, repetitive, but skilfully sustained thriller of racial violence, ratcheting up the tension in a manipulative way that is characteristic of this director, who also uses negro spiritual singing to soften some of the violence. The young gun/old pro pairing has more than a whiff of In the Heat of the Night, but the film was attacked by some for the same want of black agency in the outcome. Nevertheless, it was a last great role for Hackman, at any rate the last to allow him some Popeye Doyle antics, of both the on and off duty kind.
Country: US
Technical: col 127m
Director: Alan Parker
Cast: Gene Hackman, Willem Dafoe, Frances McDormand, Brad Dourif
Synopsis:
1964: FBI men investigate the disappearance of three civil rights workers in a Mississippi town.
Review:
The anger gradually mounts in this shocking, repetitive, but skilfully sustained thriller of racial violence, ratcheting up the tension in a manipulative way that is characteristic of this director, who also uses negro spiritual singing to soften some of the violence. The young gun/old pro pairing has more than a whiff of In the Heat of the Night, but the film was attacked by some for the same want of black agency in the outcome. Nevertheless, it was a last great role for Hackman, at any rate the last to allow him some Popeye Doyle antics, of both the on and off duty kind.