Cane River
This 1982 feature film was screened at the first-ever Smithsonian African American Film Festival, hosted by Smithsonian National Museum of African American History & Culture, Washington, DC, in October 2018.,References The Dating Game (1965),Hate to write a less than fulsome review of a serious indie film whose first time director died right after completing it, but one cannot deny that "Cane River" is a potentially interesting examination of class differences within black American culture that is lost amid a plethora of Louisiana travelogues and extended love scenes set to cloying late 70s/early 80s Barry White type soul ballads rather than, as an earlier reviewer noted, Creole or Cajun tunes that would mirror its setting. Also not helping things are rather stilted performances from the two leads. Give it a generous C plus,