Talk to Me

The Ready Return of a True Believer

WITH her freckles, long, blond dreadlocks, deep brown eyes and white cotton smock, the filmmaker Kasi Lemmons, 46, looks as sunny and fresh-faced as when she made her first feature, Eve's Bayou, a decade ago. One of the few African-American female directors working in Hollywood, Ms. Lemmons — who is married to the actor-director Vondie Curtis-Hall — has now made Talk to Me, the true story of Ralph Waldo Greene, known as Petey, a charismatic ex-convict who became a Washington radio personality and street activist in the turbulent 1960s. [...]

di Sharon Waxman, articolo completo (5756 caratteri spazi inclusi) su The New York Times 8 Luglio 2007