Movie
Song of the Cicada
2022 · 71 min
A gentle, meandering portrait that finds quiet warmth and odd humour in a life spent among the dead.
- Genres
- Documentary
- Starring
- Dale Carter
- Tagline
- A documentary about an eccentric mortician grappling with his legacy while making life a little stranger than death in Galveston, Texas.
- Overview
- In the coastal town of Galveston, Texas, Dale Carter lives as a mortician in his Victorian home with his protege and friend. Over the course of a decade, this observational documentary chronicles his daily life with friends, family and strangers alike, as he navigates the mortuary profession and his attempts to realize his dream of renovating a historic home in Beaumont, Texas. Song of the Cicada explores the philosophies and motives behind the macabre obsessions that define this eccentric mortician.
- How it feels
- Warm, whimsical, melancholic and earnest. Slow-burning and needs your attention.
- About
- Death, aging, identity, work
- Content
- Mild gore and language. No violence or sexual content.
- Note
- Written by AI, so it can be wrong. Full breakdown
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- Genres
- Documentary
- Starring
- Dale Carter