Lee Friedlander in Louisiana explores the ways in which Louisiana, and New Orleans in particular, have had a profound impact on the career of this important artist, while also highlighting Friedlander's
significance as a documentarian of the local music community.
It's not without
significance that Vivian's documentary, determined to expose weaknesses in marriages, only reinforces their strengths, but Bell's script seldom uses the
documentarian's lens
as a sincere mirror for relationship issues that are later exposed or discussed, and then later forgets her for large chunks of its running time.