Warming by the Devil's Fire
★★★★★
English / 89 MIN. / 2003
The Genres
The Synopsis
Director Charles Burnett (Killer of Sheep, My Brother's Wedding, To Sleep with Anger) presents a tale about a young boy's encounter with his family in Mississippi in the 1950s, and intergenerational tensions between the heavenly strains of gospel and the devilish moans of the blues.