Director/co-writer Bethany Ashton Wolf's steamy Southern-Gothic melodrama doesn't miss a cliche: Imagine chunks of
Of Mice and Men bobbing around in a spicy Cajun gumbo. But it's steeped in authentic local atmosphere -- shot on location in the Chenier Plain, a coastal marsh region, the center of Louisiana's Cajun community before it was devastated by 2005's Hurricane Rita, the film evokes the rhythms of a unique regional culture in an increasingly homogenized world.
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Beaux Dupuis (Johnathon Schaech) and his younger brother, the mentally-challenged Pemon (Frederick Koehler) were abandoned by their mother almost 18 years ago, and raised by their brutal,...
Released:
2006
Rated:
R
Length:
120 mins