Flower Films
Directed by Les Blank
My rating: 2.5 stars out of 4
IMDb
(Turner Classic Movies)
The self-proclaimed "King of Zydeco", Clifton Chenier, is seen performing in bars around Lake Charles, Louisiana, and hanging out with his friends and family. The focus is less on Chenier's music on more on the lifestyles of creole blacks in southeast Louisiana in the early 70s. There is still hope that racial integration will work and everyone will just get along, but nearly 50 years later that has not happened, far from it. A nice companion piece to Blank's other documentary on Mance Lipscomb in nearby east Texas.
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