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Oct 13, 2016
The treatment of Afro-Caribbean religion in this movie is indefensibly gratuitous & inaccurate, & that really is too bad, because otherwise it's a pretty excellent film & one I've enjoyed watching many times. Interestingly the action of the book takes place in New York City only, so the New Orleans portion is an innovation in the screenplay. It's moody, sexy, with a certain decorative occult horror element throughout, & what I think is a pretty cool surprise ending. One of my favorite moments always comes with the bayou baptism...you get this sense of the weight & sorrow & desperation of human religion, the paces & programs we run, always trying like hell under imperfect circumstances to somehow hit that fleeting moment of rapture. Five stars in black veils scrubbing blood off the walls...! CR