Honeydripper (film)

Honeydripper is a 2007 American musical drama film written and directed by John Sayles.

Stephen Holden, the film critic for The New York Times, was disappointed in the film script and wrote, While operating on a mythic level Honeydripper also wants to create the same kind of toptobottom social microcosm found in many of Mr. Sayless films. But this time his attempt to have his characters be simultaneously symbolic and real works at cross purposes. He is so uncomfortable writing dialogue in an oldtime Southern argot that the conversations in Honeydripper rarely settle into the easy, colorfully idiomatic flow that has always been a hallmark of Southern speech. Hard as they try to break through the stiffness, the films fine actors only fitfully succeed in camouflaging the machinery behind their characters.John Anderson, film critic for Variety magazine, liked the film, and lauded the musical in his review. He wrote, John Sayles the storyteller and John Sayles the political progressive havent always played well together, but, in the endearing musical timepiece Honeydripper, the indie icon lets his narrative gifts take the lead and the social issues follow like a tight bass line. The result is one of Sayles best films. The music, a mix of blues, seminal rock and newcomer Gary Clark Jr.s performance, will be an obvious draw, as will the performances by some leading AfricanAmerican actors. ........

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