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For The Love Of Movies... Can We Talk?Shefflied Doc/Fest 201 Preview - "The Bastard Sings The Sweetest Song"
Intriguing-looking documentary I came across browsing the Shefflied Doc/Fest 2012 lineup which was unveiled earlier today.
Titled The Bastard Sings the Sweetest Song, its synopsis reads:
Georgetown, Guyana, South America. Muscle is juggling a lot of balls. He has his eye fixed firmly on the middle class, hoping to pull his extended family up with him. In the meantime, his birds need constant attending, as he ekes out a living raising fighting cocks and songbirds. And he’s trying, not very successfully, to get his mother Mary off the booze. At 75, Mary has had a number of falls on her frequent sojourns outside the family compound, searching for drink. Mary drinks to forget, in particularly to drown out the night, which she has good reason to dread. She’s still able to recite by heart some of her moving poems, to her family who listen with love and admiration. But her determination to thwart Muscle, and his flawed attempts to control her drinking, has led her son to take more drastic action.
Directed by Christy Garland, The Bastard Sings the Sweetest Song, the 71-minute documentary will screen at the 2012 Shefflied Doc/Fest, which runs from June 13th through the 17th.
Watch a preview below:
1 Comment
lauren | May 13, 2012 12:19 PM
This looks amazing.