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Movie Title : When the Levees Broke
Release Date : Aug 16, 2006 Wide
Genre Movie :Documentary,Television,Special Interest
Mpaa Rating : Unrated

Actors :Harry Belafonte,Terence Blanchard,Kathleen Blanco,Wynton Marsalis,C. Ray Nagin,Sean Penn,Al Sharpton,Kanye West,Shelton Shakespear Alexan...,Wilhelmina Blanchard

Academy Award-nominated director Spike Lee (the guiding force behind the critically acclaimed documentary 4 Little Girls) turns to nonfiction filmmaking once again with the heart-wrenching marathon work When the Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts, produced by Lee's Forty Acres and a Mule Filmworks and originally screened on HBO. In four "acts" of approximately one hour each, Lee examines the devastation wrought by Hurricane Katrina in the late summer of 2005 and the incorrigible response to the catastrophe from U.S. government agencies. The filmmaker then evaluates the overwhelming measures that must be taken for the area to rebound and recover fully, demonstrating time and again that this seems an unlikely prospect in the immediate future. Act One covers the events that immediately preceded Katrina's onslaught of horror, with an in-depth exploration of the Bush administration and FEMA's joint failures to understand the potential calamity at hand. Lee picks up this subtopic again and makes it the central focus of Act Two, which expands into a dissection of the government agencies' failure to respond to the crisis with adequate measures; time and again, the director fills his frame, in this segment, with images and indications of naked human indifference. Act Three plunges headfirst into the toll taken by the hurricane on the lives of Louisiana residents, with protracted glimpses of the destruction wrought. And finally, the film wraps with Act Four, where Lee conducts more recent interviews with experts who question the soundness of the New Orleans levee system in the face of future catastrophes. A number of celebrities and public figures also appear on camera to provide commentary throughout the work, including New Orleans mayor Roy Nagin, actor, singer and social activist Harry Belafonte, and actor Sean Penn. ~ Nathan Southern, Rovi
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The same didactic instincts that sometimes mar Lee's fictional filmmaking serve him well as a documentarian and eulogist.
-Globe and Mail

Surely the most magnificent and large-souled record of a great American tragedy ever put on film.
David Denby-New Yorker

What breaks your heart is the film's accumulated firsthand stories of New Orleans residents who lost everything in the flood after Hurricane Katrina, and the dismaying conclusion that a year after the disaster, the broken city has been largely abandoned.
Stephen Holden-New York Times

When the Levees Broke is like the New Orleans jazz funeral -- a dirge on the way to the cemetery, an up-tempo parade in the deceased's honor on the bittersweet walk back home.
Paul Brownfield-Los Angeles Times

Do the flaws diminish Levees? To a degree. But the story Lee tells is so powerful, so important, that the lapses aren't a reason not to pay heed to what this passionate film has to say.
Charlie McCollum-San Jose Mercury News

It's something to make a point to see.
David Bianculli-New York Daily News

Spike Lee's masterful and disturbing Katrina docu.
Heather Boerner-Common Sense Media

There's no way to truly distill this triumph into a handful of words. The ghosts of so many color the corners of a mournful poem and a powerful prayer that's pissed off, hopeful, practical, empathetic and one of the most important documentaries ever made.
Nick Rogers-Suite101.com

Arguably Lee's best effort since Do the Right Thing.
Stan Hall-Oregonian

...provides an extraordinarily detailed look at this event, and its worth is sure to be felt increasingly as the memories fade and the anger softens with time and distance.
Jason Gorber-Film Scouts

Despite capturing many heartbreaking aspects of the disaster, this is essentially an overambitious mess which ultimately fails to convey effectively the scale or scope of the ongoing tragedy.
Kam Williams-One People's Project

It's the depth and weight of Freeman Jr's or Michael Wright's or Phyllis Leblanc's words, the anger and sadness behind them, that surge forth here, sinking the political elite's murderously empty promises.
Brian Gibson-Vue Weekly (Edmonton, Canada)

In this golden era of documentary filmmaking, When the Levess Broke is among the very best films of the past year, fiction and non-fiction alike.
Dan Jardine-Cinemania

...what should have been a searing, powerful documentary generally comes off as a rough cut that's desperately in need of some judicious editing.
David Nusair-Reel Film Reviews

It's an honest, fair and unflinching look at one of the greatest, and saddest, natural disasters to hit our shores.
Don R. Lewis-Film Threat

An exhaustive, ruminative, angry and even occasionally gallows-humorous account of the strange domino effect of tragedy compounding incompetence compounding tragedy that dealt a critical blow to one of America's great cities.
Robert Abele-L.A. Weekly

[The film] presents a poignant picture of official blunders and personal loss, and provides important national lessons if another threat this size hits an American city.
Gloria Goodale-Christian Science Monitor