Activist documentaries that set out to provide prepackaged answers rather than start conversations make audiences feel they don't need to do any of the work on their own, which tends to result in little more than a warm, fuzzy feeling as the credits roll. It's the same with Oscar-baiting period pieces about social progress of any kind: Sensibilities are flattered, complexities ignored. Lori Joyce and Candice Orlando's Arise, which is narrated by Daryl Hannah, falls in line with this trend not despite but very much because of its noble aims. An extended portrait of women working for environmental justice, it trots the globe from Kenya to Ecuador to Brooklyn as talking head after talking head gives a slight variation on the film's one (admittedly admirable) progressive theme. Brea...
- 9/18/2013
- Village Voice
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