This may not mean as much to you as it does to me -- unless, like me, you're a Louisiana native -- but I'm happy to see that after so adroitly conveying the distinctive flavor of New Orleans in Kamp Katrina, their justly acclaimed film about a makeshift community of Hurricane Katrina survivors in a funky N.O. neighborhood, documentarians David Redmon and Ashley Sabin prove every bit as insightful and simpatico while documenting a quixotic Big Easy-bound journey through rural North Louisiana in Invisible Girlfriend, a kinda-sorta sequel to their earlier effort. You can read my Variety review here.
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