With its brother-against-brother struggle for power and for the love of the same woman, you'd be forgiven for thinking that this look at life in the Port-au-Prince slums was a funky update of a classic tragedy, one of Shakespeare's history plays, say. But Danish filmmaker Asger Leth's gritty documentary is an all-too-real — and rarely seen — glimpse into the dark side of Aristide's Haiti.
The "ghosts" or, more accurately, les chimeres, are violent gang members who control Cite Soleil. Intended as an international showplace during Duvalier's corrupt reign, Cite's name, "Sun City," became bitterly ironic as it devolved into one of Haiti's poorest ghett...
Released:
2007
Rated:
NR
Length:
85 mins