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