A picture is worth an hour's worth of words in Men at Lunch, a documentary about the famed 1932 "Lunch atop a Skyscraper" photograph that, according to image repository Corbis, remains the most valuable in the world. Narrated by Fionnula Flanagan, Seán Ó Cualáin's film is a loving tribute to the photo, whose depiction of 11 men sitting atop a steel girder amid construction of 30 Rockefeller Center remains an enduring icon of innumerable things: New Yorkers' relationship to their metropolis; the struggles and successes that defined the immigrant experience; and the aspirations, toughness, sacrifice, and resiliency of Americans both during the Great Depression and afterward. Through a standard mix of interviews and Ken Burns–style aesthetics, Cualá...
- 9/18/2013
- Village Voice
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