Searching for the Wrong-Eyed Jesus

Name: Searching for the Wrong-Eyed Jesus
Genre: Documentary
Released: July 13, 2005
Duration: 82 min
Rating: 58

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Shadow Distribution | Release Date: July 13, 2005

Summary: A thought-provoking road trip through the American South, this film is a collage of stories and testimonies, almost invariably of sudden death, sin or redemption: Heaven or Hell, with no middle ground. (Films Transit International)

Director: Andrew Douglas

Genre(s): Documentary

Runtime: 82 min

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David Sterritt

A travelogue unlike any other. Read full review

G. Allen Johnson

A beautifully shot and edited film that treats its subjects fairly. Read full review

Kevin Crust

Delightfully demented. Read full review

Frank Scheck

Ultimately fails to illuminate its subject, though it does offer some evocative moments and terrific music along the way. Read full review

TV Guide Magazine Ken Fox

White's take on southern life is no more "real" than the stereotypes he's trying to disrupt, just cooler. Read full review

Leslie Felperin

Ultimately, pic feels very much like a romanticized, outsider's view of the South that willfully seeks out the culture's strangest, most weirdo aspects for other outsiders' gleeful delectation. Read full review

Phil Hall

Tiresome, trite and choked with every lousy Dixie-fried stereotype imaginable. Read full review

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ChrisS.

Aug 27, 2005

This is a depiction of the South that eloquently illustrates it's uniqueness and beauty. With beautiful photography, haunting, stylized musical performances and candid interviews in backwoods bars, prisons and churches, the filmmakers capture the south of hardcore religion and mystical This is a depiction of the South that eloquently illustrates it's uniqueness and beauty. With beautiful photography, haunting, stylized musical performances and candid interviews in backwoods bars, prisons and churches, the filmmakers capture the south of hardcore religion and mystical music, leaving aside the sterotypes of ignorance and bigotry.… Expand

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PaulF.

Feb 27, 2006

Take your video camera to every charismatic small town church in the south, throw in some great country gospel music and some assorted tales from prison, bars, and eccentric yokels and you have Searching for the Wrong-Eyed Jesus. I thought this film might bash such a culture but it actually Take your video camera to every charismatic small town church in the south, throw in some great country gospel music and some assorted tales from prison, bars, and eccentric yokels and you have Searching for the Wrong-Eyed Jesus. I thought this film might bash such a culture but it actually embraced it without absolutely agreeing to its a hell fire and brimestone tenet. I found the narrator to be quite spiritual in more of an open accepting type of way. Though many of the people in this film were quite certain what was what the narrator ceased to judge and loved the spirit of humanity for what it was.… Expand

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