30857: Spinelli (review) New film on Cite Soleil (fwd)

[Bob Corbett <corbetre@webster.edu>]

From: MASpinelli@aol.com

http://www.apple.com/trailers/thinkfilm/ghostsofcitesoleil/trailer/

An  epic portrait of a family and a culture torn apart by poverty and
violence,  Ghosts of Cite Soleil is a powerful and unsettling
documentary that takes us  inside the lives of the notorious gang
leaders who dominate the Haitian slum  of Cite Soleil, one of the most
desperate communities in the Western  hemisphere. Set to a score by
Wyclef Jean, who also executive produced the  film and serves as an
inspiration to the young men of Haiti, the film follows  two of the
gang leaders, who happen to be brothers, and are also  aspiring
rappers. The foot soldiers of these gang leaders are known as  chimeres
(or "ghosts") and it was those ghosts whom former  President
Jean-Bertrand Aristide is said to have employed to silence  his
opponents. Filmed in the months leading up to Aristide's overthrow  in
2004, the film captures the smoldering tensions between the two  rival
gang leaders, and their love for the same woman, set in a city  the
United Nations has declared the most dangerous place on  Earth




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