
United States,
2008
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97 min.
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Dir. Margaret Brown
A documentary about Mardi Gras in Mobile, Alabama (which started celebrating Fat Tuesday before New Orleans was even a city), and the deep racial chasms that still divide its observance by the city’s white folks and black folks. Like New Orleans, Mobile has a network of secret, mystic societies that organize its Mardi Gras, influencing the business networks and social life of the entire city. The Hollywood Reporter calls it "exotic and thoughtful."