The Agronomist

Name: The Agronomist
Genre: Documentary
Released: April 23, 2004
Duration: 90 min
Rating: 82

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THINKFilm | Release Date: April 23, 2004 | PG-13

Summary: This documentary is a profile of Jean Dominique, a Haitian radio journalist and human rights activist who was assassinated in 2000.

Director: Jonathan Demme

Genre(s): Documentary

Rating: PG-13

Runtime: 90 min

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Michael Sragow

As a documentary, The Agronomist, in its excitingly fractured, modern manner, does what Lawrence of Arabia and The Leopard do: It traces the upheaval of a civilization in the profile of a magnificent individual. It's a 90-minute nonfiction film with the impact and the greatness of an epic. Read full review

David Edelstein

Demme's movie exuberantly crosses the border from documentary into hagiography and from hagiography into celebration. Read full review

J. Hoberman

This affecting eulogy underscores not only Demme's own tribute to Dominique but also the film's homage to radio. This is a motion picture that's in love with the magic of airborne speech. Read full review

Ann Hornaday

Has important things to tell viewers about global politics, and in an eerily resonant way. Read full review

Marc Cooper

Although the film may be about 20 percent overweight, the human story of a man who -- for four decades -- spat in the eye of his tormentors and gleefully accepted his role as a latter-day Sisyphus commands the viewer's attention. Read full review

David Sterritt

Watching Demme's documentary is both a crash course in the nation's tumultuous past and a provocative visit with one of its most colorful citizens. Read full review

Rick Groen

Not an extraordinary portrait, but it does portray an extraordinary man. Read full review

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