The Bastard Sings the Sweetest Song / Danish Film Institute ; Murmur Film in co-production with Pausefilm & WG Film ; a film by Christy Garland ; director, Christy Garland ; producers, Chris Bennett, Christy Garland
Published
London, England : Royal Anthropological Institute, 2012
Noted anthropologist Mary Catherine Bateson (daughter of Margaret Mead) recently chose The Bastard Sings as the film she would introduce with a talk about ageing and poverty, two of the films' themes, at the Anthropological Film Festival at the Jerusalem Cinematheque. The Bastard, using direct cinema style, introduces us to the Smith family in Georgetown, Guyana where both Muscle, and his mother Mary, each struggle to fight the family demons of violence and alcoholism, bringing them into conflict with each other
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Title from resource description page (viewed June 24, 2016)
