Desert Bayou.

Rob Humanick sets it up at Slant: "In the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, nearly 600 displaced evacuees found themselves en route to Utah, a region in striking contrast to New Orleans on virtually every level."

For Matt Zoller Seitz, writing in the New York Times, the doc "feels less like a revelatory feature film than several shorts strung together."

IndieWIRE interviews LeMay.

Update, 10/11: "LeMay deftly underscores the jarring process for the 600 who leave New Orleans, a city with a rich black cultural heritage, for a temporary home in a land where 62 percent of the population self-identifies as Latter-day Saints, a religion with a rich heritage of black exclusion," writes Nida Najar in the New York Press.

Posted by dwhudson at October 5, 2007 2:02 AM