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| When the Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts |
Saddened and outraged in equal measure by both the scale of the disaster and the slow and disorganised response to the emergency on the part of government instrumentalities charged with coordinating the recovery effort, Lee's expansive documentary presents an impassioned portrait of New Orleans and its beleaguered citizens in the wake of the fearsome destruction inflicted by Hurricane Katrina on August 29, 2005.
"The most magnificent and large-souled record of a great American tragedy ever put on film"
The New Yorker
