Photo: Tia Lessin and Carl Deal's Trouble the Water
As with Ed Pincus and Lucia Small's The Ax in the Attic, Trouble the Water was prompted by the outrage felt by two documentarians at the catastrophe unfolding in New Orleans during Hurricane Katrina. Yet unlike their predecessors, directors Tia Lessin and Carl Deal sensibly refuse to put themselves front and center in their film—a somewhat amazing development, given their long-standing creative relationship with the king of nonfiction narcissism, Michael Moore—in favor of squarely focusing their sights on married survivors Kim and Scott Roberts, whom they encounter by chance days after the levees break. Nick Schager
As with Ed Pincus and Lucia Small's The Ax in the Attic, Trouble the Water was prompted by the outrage felt by two documentarians at the catastrophe unfolding in New Orleans during Hurricane Katrina. Yet unlike their predecessors, directors Tia Lessin and Carl Deal sensibly refuse to put themselves front and center in their film—a somewhat amazing development, given their long-standing creative relationship with the king of nonfiction narcissism, Michael Moore—in favor of squarely focusing their sights on married survivors Kim and Scott Roberts, whom they encounter by chance days after the levees break. Nick Schager
