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Film review: Trouble the Water

Published December 4, 2008, 9:39 pm, Guardian Unlimited

Tia Lessin and Carl Deal's movie about Hurricane Katrina is, in its way, quite as powerful as Spike Lee's massive documentary on the subject. They follow the fortunes of New Orleans rapper Kimberly Rivers Roberts and quote from the first-person camcorder record she and her husband made of the catastrophe. It wasn't until seeing this movie that I grasped the full horror of how many people ...

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