Occasionally lacking in context but never less than intriguing, Jarreth Merz's polished film is a handy document to a rarely visited democracy.
An African Election
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Switzerland, United States, Ghana · 2011
1h 29m
Director Kevin Merz
Starring
Genre Documentary, History
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A documentary about the 2008 presidential elections in Ghana that examines the complex, political machinery of a nation that is struggling to legitimize itself as a democracy to the rest of world. This film chronicles the start-to-finish drama of a campaign filled with unpredictable twists and turns.
What are people saying?
What are critics saying?
Even those who closely follow African (or global) politics will likely be bowled over by the real-life plot twists unfolding before Merz's camera. What makes the film especially resonate now is the frustration with the status quo that is consistently voiced by the people on the street.
The New York Times by Jeannette Catsoulis
As we join throngs of excited citizens at a public vote-counting, their uninhibited zeal for the process only highlights the jaded cynicism that threatens to overwhelm our own.
Los Angeles Times by Kenneth Turan
What is finally most compelling about this film is the sense it gives of how passionately the citizens of Ghana believe in democracy, how much it means to them.
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