Examining Race and a Future Beyond It
di Dennis Lim The New York Times
“MEDICINE FOR MELANCHOLY,” an independent feature by the first-time writer-director Barry Jenkins, opens the morning after a one-night stand. Micah and Jo, who don’t yet know each other’s names, are young and black, and for want of a more descriptive term you might call them hipsters. In San Francisco, where the African-American population is less than 7 percent and where “black indie kids” (to use Mr. Jenkins’s term) are scarce, that gives their hookup added significance — at least for Micah. As he puts it to Jo, “You ever realize just how few of us there really are?”
For Mr. [...]
di Dennis Lim, articolo completo (6397 caratteri spazi inclusi) su The New York Times 25 gennaio 2009
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