French director Bertrand Tavernier teamed up with his friend, American director Robert Parrish, to travel to and experience Oxford, Mississippi and its environs with an ear for authentic gospel and blues, as well as an eye for the romantic southern landscape and stormy cultural politics typified by William Faulkner’s writing. This is a touching, jubilant, and often beautiful film about Southern culture and music; poor people who create art out of their lives. It’s also a nostalgic look back at the enduring cross-cultural friendship of two most unusual filmmakers. (1983)