Monrovia, Indiana
Wiseman's portrait reveals emptiness that's subtle and unforced but becomes devastating.
Monrovia, Indiana
MONROVIA, INDIANA explores a small town in rural mid-America and illustrates how values like community service, duty, spiritual life, generosity and authenticity are formed, experienced and lived along with conflicting stereotypes. The film gives a complex and nuanced view of daily life in Monrovia and provides some understanding of a way of life whose influence and force have not always been recognized or understood in the big cities on the east and west coasts of America and in other countries.
Genre
Documentary,
Auteur Cinema
Web Site
Runtime
143
Language
English
Director
Frederick Wiseman
FEATURED REVIEW
Peter Travers, Rolling Stone
There’s no fake news in a Wiseman documentary. 'Monrovia, Indiana' is his 42nd nonfiction feature and it’s rigorously non-judgemental. The farming town of Morovia (population 1,063), a part of Morgan County, is mostly white, aging, Republican, pro-gun and pro-God, but not necessarily in that order ...
Played at
Lumiere Music Hall 11.02.18 - 11.08.18
Laemmle Virtual Cinema 2.05.21 - 2.11.21
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