The Exiles

A surprisingly avant-garde construct, for its time and place, which indicates the emerging groundswell of brilliant American independent cinema, overlaying documentary interviews atop a directed narrative featuring those same interviewees. A sad inner monologue which evokes with authenticity the urban alienation of an ethnic subculture.

I'd prefer it as a photo book.

The Exiles estreava há 60 anos nos EUA. Obviamente tem aquela pegada do Shadows do Cassavetes, um ponto de virada do cinema independe americano naqueles idos, com o diferencial de ter nativos americanos como protagonistas e um toque de Jean Rouch. DVDRip no MakingOff.

File next to Killer of Sheep and Shadows as socially and historically Important films that also just stylistically really don't appeal to me at all. I'm glad it exists, but it's not my kind of thing.

Star Rating: ★★★★

More important than any of those Beat writers

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Most interesting.

The dubbing is a particularly noticeable barrier in a film so intimate in style and setting, but past it lies a very rich film. At times heartwarming and others heartbreaking, there's little judgement or manufactured drama going on just the daily conflicted lives of a struggling but far from hopeless group of people.

Using non-professional actors, blends fiction with non-fictional interviews placed over the visuals, low budget but with a rich black and white cinematography that adds to the mood. Its reward requires the viewer to bring their emotions to it as well as watch it, but if one does you are treated to an extremely thoughtful work on alienation and melancholy which fully qualifies as alternative American cinema

A fascinating look at one corner of Los Angeles in the late 1950s, a corner populated by Native American kids who moved to the city looking for success, and instead found a life of drinking, women, and self-gratification. Mackenzie used non-professionals here, interspersing their interviews throughout the film and creating provocative tensions with the images. The dubbed in after the fact dialogue could be cleaned up, but the straightforward portrait of Los Angeles more than makes up for it.

"While the mood is spot-on, the dubbed dialogue is so persistently lousy that it besmirches the proceedings' otherwise-entrancing beauty." - Nick Schager