The film is a first-person travelogue in which the director - with disarming openness and evident fondness for his hard-working but underpaid subjects - retraces the steps of his youth.

But what's most striking about Waiting for the Carnival is its self-conscious, but never insistent awareness of its own representational methods.

[A] sobering, astute documentary.

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