DIRECTED BY CHRISTY GARLAND The Bastard Sings the Sweetest Song isn’t the easiest sell. An observational documentary about the relationship between an alcoholic Guyanese poet in her seventies and her sweet son—a middle-class aspiring hustler who sells songbirds and manages cockfights on the side—it’s the sort of film one approaches with caution, fearful of the … Continue reading The Bastard Sings the Sweetest Song