Richard Brody reviews Raven Jackson’s first feature film, a multigenerational saga on an intimate scale.
“All Dirt Roads Taste of Salt” is a multigenerational saga, spanning half a century in the life of its protagonist, Mackenzie , a Black woman who grows up in rural Mississippi in the nineteen-sixties and seventies. Yet the movie’s most distinctive and powerful achievements are in the realm of time. If the events in Jackson’s spare script had been filmed at a conventional pace and with conventional stagings, the film would be a longish short, of maybe thirty or forty minutes.
In moments of overtly great dramatic import, Jackson’s inspiration rises to the occasion, as in the scene of Mack’s wedding, where, during the singing of a spiritual, the parishioners are shown not singing along but in portraits, one by one, in extreme closeup, in a mode that joins shared devotional fervor with private contemplative stillness.
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