In “17 Blocks,” Cheryl Sanford, matriarch of a low-income African American household in southeast Washington, D.C., talks wistfully of a “parallel universe” where she and her family enjoy cookouts,…
’s intimate and uncompromising documentary speaks even more directly to this moment and an America convulsing in protest over racial inequality.
As the years pass and grainy camcorder footage gives way to widescreen digital video, Rothbart toggles between family crises and slivers of normalcy. But his most effective choice may be to steer clear of political discussions, even if the results of governmental negligence fill every frame. The doc’s most overt political act is its title. The titular 17 blocks represent the distance between the Sanford home and a U.S.
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