All Dirt Roads Taste of Salt

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All Dirt Roads Taste of Salt

PG

2023

1h 32m

Drama

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A lyrical, decades-spanning exploration across a woman's life in Mississippi, the feature debut from award-winning poet, photographer and filmmaker Raven Jackson is a haunting and richly layered portrait, a beautiful ode to the generations of people and places that shape us.

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For viewers willing and able to adjust to its leisurely, recursive rhythm, All Dirt Roads Taste of Salt is a beautifully elegant exploration of grief and longing.

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Alexandra Heller-Nicholas

AWFJ.org

08/20/2024

All Dirt Roads Taste of Salt is a film that holds the notion of intimacy in a way that almost feels sacred

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G. Allen Johnson

San Francisco Chronicle

11/22/2023

4/4

The kind of evocative, impressionistic storytelling one might find in, say, films by Terrence Malick or Andrei Tarkovsky. It is a minimalist, observational masterpiece.

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Michael Phillips

Chicago Tribune

11/10/2023

3.5/4

Without the central relationship between the adult sisters as a compass I don’t know if Jackson’s approach would work at all. But McClure and Ingram are first-rate, as vivid in their unspoken understanding as they are in their easygoing banter.

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Ally Ham

The Review Geek

09/06/2024

9/10

If you can open yourself up to feel each moment of the dreamlike narrative rather than constantly try to piece together context, All Dirt Roads Taste of Salt makes for stunningly evocative viewing.

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Stephen A. Russell

Orion's Shoulder (Substack)

09/01/2024

An astonishingly assured debut film that innately understands how memories are forged and indelibly remain.

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Daniel Allen

Loud and Clear Reviews

07/25/2024

3/5

It may not leave you enthralled, but All Dirt Roads Taste of Salt shows the director has great promise, especially visually. Maybe from this, a great river of filmmaking will form in the future.

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merrie t

11/26/2023

Beautiful film. Quiet, lyrical like a visual poem. Great performances.

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Bianca R.

@Bianca828 Dec 4

The love in this movie is palpable in the gaze of the director, the nuance of the script, and the embodied and spoken language of the cast. I felt like I was witnessing a very intimate conversation and was grateful for the privilege as I held my breath so as not to disrupt with my presence.

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Stephen C

@bob25009 Jul 2

Success in 1 hour and 32 minutes!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Rated PG for Brief Sensuality and Thematic Content!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Steve H

@RT23551224 03/17/2025

THIS MOVIE WAS GARBAGE. SHOTS WERE TOO TIGHT AND VERY VERY WEIRDLY COMPOSED... EVERYBODY IN THE MOVIE LOOKED POSSESSED. THE MOVIE WAS LONG AND DRAWN OUT, BORING, FELL ASLEEP 9 TIMES. YOU NEED A LOT OF MUSHROOMS TO WATCH THIS MOVIE. I JUST CAN'T.

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Wayne M

@Wayne93 01/03/2025

All Dirt Roads Taste of Salt is an intriguing and at times beautful film. But I also found it a frustrating one, one that lingered without giving any dramatic punch. It's painfully slow to the point of being inert. It's a sparsely worded and deeply emotional film that I couldn't really connect with. This is the directoral debut for Raven Jackson and you can see the talent. The film is non-linear and at times confusing. It mainly follows Mack, a Mississippi woman over some decades. We see vignettes through out the film concerning her family. It's a mysterious and evocative film, but one I found a little hard to get into.

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Nate N

@RT19443483 10/12/2024

I can appreciate that this is supposed to be more of a visual depiction of the human condition and how we form bonds with each other, but it’s still incredibly boring and slower than waiting for a pot of water to boil. There’s virtually no dialogue or discernible plot, and the scenes are not shown chronologically. If I didn’t watch it while on a plane, I would’ve been upset I wasted 90 minutes.

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Synopsis

A lyrical, decades-spanning exploration across a woman's life in Mississippi, the feature debut from award-winning poet, photographer and filmmaker Raven Jackson is a haunting and richly layered portrait, a beautiful ode to the generations of people and places that shape us.

Director: Raven Jackson
Producer: Maria Altamirano, Barry Jenkins, Adele Romanski, Mark Ceryak
Screenwriter: Raven Jackson
Distributor: A24
Production Co: Pastel, A24
Rating: PG (Brief Sensuality|Thematic Content)
Genre: Drama
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Nov 3, 2023, Limited
Runtime: 1h 32m

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