[PINK RIBBONS, INC. screens Thursday August 30th at 8:25 pm and Friday August 31st at 7:30 pm at the Cleveland Cinematheque.]
Review by Charles Cassady, Jr.
Don’t know if you caught the latest Cleveland arts
embarrassment, but this summer the Gathering Place, a Westlake institution for
cancer patients and survivors, was supposed to host an acclaimed photographic
chronicle by Angelo Mendino, a Cleveland native (like LeBron, he left the area)
who used his lens to chronicle the grueling ordeal his late wife faced as they
both confronted her breast cancer diagnosis and treatment together. But Mendino’s
up-close-and-personal view of the dreaded disease proved too much for the suburban
venue and they closed the exhibit within the week (a downtown Cleveland
art gallery picked it up, at least).
Review by Charles Cassady, Jr.
Meditate upon that as you watch PINK RIBBONS, INC., a searing
Canadian documentary which aims to toss mud on something many quivering journos
would consider sacrosanct, the upbeat anti-breast-cancer campaigns as embodied
in pink-tastic campaigns by major corporations, most partnered to the
ubiquitous Susan G. Komen Foundation.
