One doesn't expect "Domestic Violence, Pt 1" to be so refreshing. But Frederick Wiseman's 2001 six and a half hour document of a shelter in Tampa, FL is so square that it's spectacularly hip in this era of the Look At Me doc. No narration, no music, no director's statement of position, no structured timeline... just slices of reality, bursts really... the most vivid and simple and human emotions coming at you in wave after wave.
Wow. Radical!
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