Cane River

Tuned in for scenery and music-but in spite of not hearing creole musics and tunes, thoroughly enjoyed the movie. btw, I think it's pronounced "Nack a tecsh"..might be natch a dough chess in Texas, but not in Louisiane. good job.

Hate to write a less than fulsome review of a serious indie film whose first time director died right after completing it, but one cannot deny that "Cane River" is a potentially interesting examination of class differences within black American culture that is lost amid a plethora of Louisiana travelogues and extended love scenes set to cloying late 70s/early 80s Barry White type soul ballads rather than, as an earlier reviewer noted, Creole or Cajun tunes that would mirror its setting. Also not helping things are rather stilted performances from the two leads. Give it a generous C plus

The movie itself wasn't too bad. The acting was just super bad.

TCM showed Cane River a few months back. I'm glad this film was rediscovered. I enjoyed this early 80s indie film that happened to be filmed in my state of Louisiana

I was actually quite tickled by this film. I thought it was romantic, and sweet. I am familiar with the creole culture of Cane River so I was automatically interested. The acting was ok but the message and the consciousness of the film outweighed everything. I was happily surprised by how engaged I stayed. I am shocked and quite astounded to hear the film was only released in 2020! What a gem to discover. This is what I miss about films today that display black romance. Hopefully more people discover this film as I was just on youtube looking at black movie classics and came across this film!!