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Films
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Region
“South America”
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Keywords
“Intergenerational relations”
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Directors
“Garland, Christy”
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Series
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Country of production
“Denmark”
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Year of production
“2012”
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Colour / Black and white
“Colour”
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films with a digital version
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Region
South America
1
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Country
Guyana
1
Keywords
Elderly people
1
Family / Kinship
1
Intergenerational relations
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Directors
Garland, Christy
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Series
not set
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Country of production
Canada
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Denmark
1
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Year of production
2012
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Colour / Black and white
Film
The Bastard Sings the Sweetest Song
2012
71
‘
Directed by
Christy Garland
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‘The Bastard Sings the Sweetest Song’, using direct cinema style, introduces us to the Smith family in Georgetown, Guyana, where both Muscle, and his mother Mary, each struggle to fight the family demons of violence and alcoholism, bringing them into conflict with each other. Anthropologist Mary Catherine Bateson (daughter of Margaret Mead) recently chose ‘The Bastard Sings the Sweetest Song’ as the film she would introduce with a talk about aging and poverty, two of the films’ themes, at the Anthropological Film Festival at the Jerusalem Cinematheque.
South America
Elderly people
Family / Kinship
Intergenerational relations