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Moving Midway (2007)
Director: Godfrey Cheshire
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From Time Out Chicago
Southerners have an unusual aptitude for examining their relationship to their past, for the obvious reason that their past is a source of both guilt and pride. Cheshire starts with his cousin’s effort to move the family house, which was the center of a plantation, before it gets engulfed by development. That leads Cheshire to a larger meditation on the South, slavery, family and the myth of the plantation in American culture. That sounds like a hell of a lot to do, but Cheshire has a gift for balancing his various subjects. He also has the amazing good fortune to connect with Robert Hinton, an African-American academic who is Cheshire’s cousin through a slave-holding ancestor who “crossed the line.” Hinton and Cheshire are both fascinating, thoughtful men who try to bridge the divide of their shared history.Author: Hank Sartin
Time Out Chicago Issue 190: October 16–22, 2008
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