“Chenier” – Maitland McDonagh reviews
Director/co-writer Bethany Ashton Wolf’s steamy Southern-Gothic melodrama doesn’t miss a cliche: Imagine chunks of Of Mice and Men bobbing around in a spicy Cajun gumbo. But it’s steeped in authentic local atmosphere — shot on location in the Chenier Plain, a coastal marsh region, the center of Louisiana’s Cajun community before it was devastated by 2005’s Hurricane Rita, the film evokes the rhythms of a unique regional culture in an increasingly homogenized world. Read more>>
