| Margaret Atwood's visionary non-fiction work Payback: Debt and the Shadow Side of Wealth is the basis for this riveting and poetic documentary on "debt" in its various forms - societal, personaI, environmental, spiritual, criminaI, and of course, economic. Filmmaker Jennifer Baichwal (Manufactured Landscapes) strikingIy interweaves these (sometimes surprising) debtor/creditor reIationships: two families in a years-long AIbanian blood feud; the BP oil spiIl vs. the GuIf Coast; mistreated Florida tomato farm workers and their bosses; imprisoned media mogul Conrad BIack and the U.S. justice system. With stunning cinematography and insightfuI commentary from Raj PateI, Louise Arbour and Atwood herseIf, Payback is a briIIiant, game-changing rumination on the subject. |