Movie
Desert Bayou
2007 · 71 min
A sobering, human-scale documentary that watches institutional neglect collide with ordinary lives, leaving a quiet ache and unease.
- Directed by
- Alex LeMay
- Genres
- Documentary
- Overview
- Questions of race, poverty, politics and religion hurdle towards each other in DESERT BAYOU, the story of 600 Hurricane Katrina evacuees who find themselves evacuated and deplaned from New Orleans and deposited into an isolated military installation in Utah. The lives of evacuees are undone; response from government officials, the military, local citizens and a Jewish rabbi astonish.
- How it feels
- Earnest, tense, melancholic and satirical. Measured and needs your attention.
- About
- Race, class, politics, faith
- Content
- Mild language. No violence, gore or sexual content.
- Note
- Written by AI, so it can be wrong. Full breakdown
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- Directed by
- Alex LeMay
- Genres
- Documentary