Daughters of the Dust
1991
3.8
Daughters of the Dust

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Los Angeles Times

Kenneth Turan

80

A poetic attempt to re-create a bygone culture as not only a role model for the present but also a positive mythology for the future, the movie's strong visual qualities and epic emotions make it a bracing remedy to swallow.

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New York Times

Stephen Holden

80

For all its harsh allusions to slavery and hardship, the film is an extended, wildly lyrical meditation on the power of African cultural iconography and the spiritual resilience of the generations of women who have been its custodians.

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The New Yorker

Richard Brody

80

There's nothing derivative about Julie Dash's work; every image, every moment is a full creation.

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USA Today

Mike Clark

50

Julie Dash pours on sounds, music and costuming for a tone more impressionistic than dramatic

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