Paris Is Burning

...a sobering insight into the aspirations of a doubly excluded sub-class...

Paris is Burning documents a world that was a secret until the dance style called voguing moved out of the balls and into the more daring of the mainstream clubs.

The beauty of Paris Is Burning is the way Livingston's nonjudgmental camera is able to accommodate both views, among others, while depicting a familial world apart from White America, with its own sets of rules, rituals, even idioms...