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Article: CONFLICT CRACKLES IN SURPRISINGLY GOOD 'POWER TRIP'.(Entertainment/Weekend/Spotlight)(Review)
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- Rocky Mountain News (Denver, CO)
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- May 14, 2004
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Byline: Robert Denerstein, Rocky Mountain News
No matter what I say, it's not going to be easy to convince you that it's worth seeing a documentary about the problems of supplying electricity inside the former Soviet Republic of Georgia, now an independent state. Believe me. I know. I resisted Power Trip at a film festival because it sounded dry and technical. Boy was I wrong. Power Trip, which opens today at Madstone, has been thoughtfully assembled by director Paul Devlin, and, as with all intriguing movies, it's about a lot more than electricity. Devlin's movie deals with transition and displacement in the former Soviet Union. It introduces us to a highly ...