Southern Journey (Revisited)
UK Cinema Release Date:
Friday 25th September 2020
Contains infrequent strong language and racial discrimination references. Suitable for 12 years and over
1 hour 15 minutes approx.
Released
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Directed By:
Rob Curry and Tim Plester
Synopsis
Traversing the back-roads of the Southern United States, Southern Journey (Revisited) is both a music documentary and a road movie. Set against the incendiary backdrop of the 2018 midterm elections, the film retraces the route of an iconic song-collecting trip from the late 1950s - Alan Lomax's so-called "Southern Journey". Accompanied by a glorious soundtrack of blues and bluegrass, hollers and spirituals, the film explores the continuity between the civil rights-era setting of the original trip and the present day, and challenges long-held stereotypes about both black and white America along the way.