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Director: | Roberto Minervini |
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Cinematography: | Diego Romero Suarez-Llanos |
Editing: | Marie-Hélène Dozo |
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Runtime: | 92 minutes |
Country: | France Italy |
Language: | English |
The Other Side is a 2015 French-Italian documentary film directed by Roberto Minervini. It was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 2015 Cannes Film Festival.[1] [2]
Roberto Minervini goes to Louisiana, where he documents drug addicts and anti-government militias.
On review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, the film holds an approval rating of 82% based on 22 reviews, and an average rating of 7.5/10.[3] On Metacritic, the film has a weighted average score of 65 out of 100, based on 10 critics, indicating "generally favorable reviews".[4]
Peter Debruge of Variety called it "a soul-draining, feature-length look at the bastard stepchildren of the American Dream".[5] Jordan Mintzer of The Hollywood Reporter called it "a poetic but hermetic journey into a debauched and dangerous Deep South".[6]