The Sons of Tennessee Williams

Name: The Sons of Tennessee Williams
Genre: History, Documentary
Released: October 7, 2011
Duration: 75 min
Rating: 52

2011

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First Run Features | Release Date: October 7, 2011 | Not Rated

Summary: Mardi Gras, drag balls and politics–where else could these elements come together but in New Orleans? Interweaving archival footage and contemporary interviews, The Sons of Tennessee Williams charts the evolution of the gay Mardi Gras krewe scene over the decades, illuminating the ways in which its emergence was a seminal factor in theMardi Gras, drag balls and politics–where else could these elements come together but in New Orleans? Interweaving archival footage and contemporary interviews, The Sons of Tennessee Williams charts the evolution of the gay Mardi Gras krewe scene over the decades, illuminating the ways in which its emergence was a seminal factor in the cause of gay liberation in the South. (First Run Features)… Expand

Director: Tim Wolff

Genre(s): History, Documentary

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 75 min

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Noel Murray

Oct 5, 2011

The significance of that group anecdote - from the message of unity to the way Mardi Gras gave some gay New Orleanians a way to explain their lives to their parents - can't be overstated, either for its impact on human rights or its power to move. Read full review

John DeFore

Oct 9, 2011

Genial documentary combines extravagance of Mardi Gras drag with an underexposed story of early gay-rights achievements. Read full review

Lou Lumenick

Oct 7, 2011

The Sons of Tennessee Williams, which offers touching interviews with many older gay men, somewhat awkwardly connects this history with the efforts of a gay Mardi Gras crew to keep going in the wake of Hurricane Katrina. Read full review

Paul Brunick

Oct 6, 2011

As the film cuts back and forth between the present day and a historical survey of gay culture, its tone wavers between dutifully somber and irrepressibly funny. Read full review

Dennis Harvey

Oct 4, 2011

Tim Wolff's documentary is a diverting mix of colorful interviewees and footage from one such krewe's 40th anniversary ball, but it doesn't probe very deep. Read full review

Ernest Hardy

Oct 4, 2011

A tedious exercise in filling in historical blanks through exhausted tropes. Read full review

Diego Semerene

Oct 6, 2011

This time-tested project of tracing gayness back to when its shame was so explicitly enforced feels not only passé, and naïve, but mostly unproductive in a post-Judith Butler world in which drag queens are on TV teaching biological women how to better perform womanhood. Read full review

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