Filmmaker Suzannah Herbert takes a sharp look at the American South’s unreconciled history through a Mississippi town that mixes antebellum tourism with a community deeply divided over its past. With an unflinching lens, the film captures the debates, memories, and tensions that are building toward a reckoning.
Critics' Reviews
90
Writer/director Suzannah Herbert, who spent three years in Natchez, lets the story unfold organically. The Natchez residents tell their own stories. We are in the historic rooms, cars, and outdoor spaces alongside them, and the filmmakers are barely evident on screen or in audio. The editing is where the director’s judgment becomes crucial. Herbert’s selection and timing of telling moments are exceptional. She allows us to consider one figure as quirky, then gains our sympathy, before revealing his appalling racism.
- Released January 30, 2026