Sherman's March (1985)

Directed by

Ross McElwee

Genre

documentary film, biographical film

Country

United States

Runtime

2h 38m

Rating

6.7 of 10 from 42 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

Ross McElwee sets out to make a documentary about General Sherman's Civil War march through the South but instead turns the camera on his own romantic life and encounters with various women. The film blurs the line between a historical project and a personal diary.

personalreflectivewryramblingquirkyintimateself-deprecatingunhurried

What happens

Sherman's March: A Meditation on the Possibility of Romantic Love In the South During an Era of Nuclear Weapons Proliferation is a 1986 cinéma vérité documentary film written and directed by Ross McElwee. It was awarded a Grand Jury prize at the 1987 Sundance Film Festival, and was selected for preservation in the U.S. National Film Registry in 2000. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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