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Detropia
Critics' Pick
(No longer in theaters)
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Genre
Documentary
Producer
Craig Atkinson, Heidi Ewing, Rachel Grady
Distributor
Loki Films
Release Date
Sep 7, 2012
Release Notes
NY
Official Website
Review
A ghost movie about a ghost town, Grady and Ewing’s impressionistic, elegiac doc depicts a slowly disintegrating Detroit, post–financial crisis. But rather than a full-on exposé, this is more a somber mood piece: The filmmakers follow a union president as he struggles with automakers, a club owner as he reflects on the past, and even two young artists as they help reclaim the city’s forgotten neighborhoods.