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This award-winning film brims over with stunning images of carnival play and a rich soundtrack of hot Cajun music. Cajun filmmaker Pat Mire gives us an entertaining, inside look at the colorful and exotic rural Cajun Mardi Gras. Every year before the Lenten season begins, processions of masked, and costumed revelers, often on horseback, go from house to house gathering ingredients for communal gumbos in communities across rural southwest Louisiana. The unruly participants in this ancient tradition play as beggars, fools and thieves as they raid farmsteads and perform in exchange for charity. This film celebrates this Louisiana folk culture, at the same time exploring its origins in medieval European traditions, and looking at why the spirit and function of the Cajun Mardi Gras is so often misunderstood and misinterpreted by outsiders. © Pat Mire/Attakapas Productions, 1993. V1052 -- $39.95 |
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