'Ballast': An African-American Indie Film Fantasy Made for White Liberals

New York Press | October 2, 2008
Director-writer Lance Hammer shows a black Mississippi family torn apart by a double suicide attempt, drugs and alienation. But you have to see through these ludicrous black phantoms to the actual white middle-class fantasies at the film's core.

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