Gut Renovation

Name: Gut Renovation
Genre: History, Documentary, News
Released: March 6, 2013
Duration: 81 min
Rating: 44

2013

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| Release Date: March 6, 2013

Summary: Gut Renovation charts the destruction of Williamsburg after the city passed a re-zoning plan in 2005 which allowed developers to build luxury condos where there were once thriving industries, working-class families, and artists.

Director: Su Friedrich

Genre(s): History, Documentary, News

Runtime: 81 min

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Joshua Rothkopf

Mar 5, 2013

The navel-gazing artist class that gave Williamsburg its character (now more of a marketable “brand”) has in Friedrich both a vigorous defender and, it must be said, something close to an angry parody of itself. Read full review

Stephen Holden

Mar 6, 2013

An alternate title for Gut Renovation, Su Friedrich’s cranky, sarcastic documentary polemic about the gentrification of a Brooklyn neighborhood, might be “The Rape of Williamsburg.” Read full review

Ronnie Scheib

Mar 13, 2013

The latest in a line of documentaries decrying the destruction of viable working-class businesses and residential neighborhoods in Brooklyn, Su Friedrich’s film bypasses sadness and indignation for flat-out anger and well-aimed sarcasm. Read full review

Noel Murray

Mar 6, 2013

Friedrich’s snide tone gets in the way, turning a study of capitalism run amok into one artist who just can’t stand all these rich squares and their “fancy dogs.” Read full review

Farran Smith Nehme

Mar 7, 2013

The result is like an hour and a half listening to someone bellyache about her landlord. Read full review

Nick McCarthy

Mar 3, 2013

Due to the one-minded construction of the documentary, there's little to parse beyond impassioned harrumphs. Read full review

Diana Clarke

Mar 5, 2013

What a shame it is that Friedrich, so impassioned by her subject matter, couldn’t get enough objectivity to make a film that’s more than just a complaint. Read full review

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