Change Your Image
bettyrivard
Reviews
King Coal (2023)
Brilliant, beautiful and insightful!
As a 50+ year resident of WV, mostly in rural areas, I have also traveled to every county of the state. I love how this film showcases our state's incredible beauty while including archival and current documentary images of the realities of our coal heritage. It is respectful to this culture while providing a healing spirit that can help to inspire us as we move beyond it to a more diversified future. There is something here for everyone in our state to relate to as we see glimpses of places and events that we know. This is also the best antidote I can think of to the degrading images that have so often been used to try to undermine our sense of ourselves and what we know to be true. The two graceful and relatable young women who lead us through the story do justice to our promise for the future. Bravo to everyone who is involved!