(Ross McElwee, US 1985, 157 min., DCP)
Winner of the 1987 Sundance Film Festival’s Grand Jury Prize (Documentary), Sherman’s March is a cinéma vérité documentary epic that follows filmmaker Ross McElwee on a quest to explore the devastating effects of General William Tecumseh Sherman’s military campaign across Georgia during the American Civil War. What begins as McElwee’s attempt to cross-examine General Sherman’s March against his own Southern upbringing ends up being thwarted by the director falling in love with multiple women over the course of the production. A hilarious odyssey about relationships, nuclear paranoia, and Burt Reynolds, Sherman’s March is a groundbreaking entry in the canon of personal documentaries.
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