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Oct 27, 2021 · Hall, Grau, editor Sabine Hoffman, and composer Devonté Hynes do an excellent job of casting a hypnotic spell on the audience. This is a deliberately paced film with enveloping moods that feel like symphony movements. There’s heavy material here, but “Passing” doesn’t belabor its points.
In 1920s New York City, Irene Redfield, a light-skinned black woman living in Harlem, meets a childhood friend, Clare Bellew, by chance at a hotel dining room. Irene is married to a Black doctor. She learns that Clare has been "passing" as white and has married a wealthy white man from Chicago.
AwardDate Of CeremonyCategoryRecipient (s)Tessa ThompsonFebruary 26, 2022Film AdaptationRebecca HallRebecca HallRuth NeggaOct 28, 2021 · This writing/directing debut from actress Rebecca Hall is based on the wonderful and still-shocking 1929 novel by bi-racial US author, Nella Larsen. Shot in black and white – in a ratio (4:3 ...
Nov 11, 2021 · This was true in Nella Larsen's 1929 novel "Passing," and it remains the case nearly a century later as its cinematic adaption, written and directed by Rebecca Hall, gains wide release.
- Melanie Mcfarland
Oct 28, 2021 · It’s a performance that does right by the intricate nature of the film’s subject: the historical phenomenon of light-skinned Black Americans “passing” as white to cross “the colour line” and its...
- Clarisse Loughrey
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Nov 10, 2021 · In a new Netflix movie, Nella Larsen's Harlem Renaissance novel comes to life. Nearly a century later, this story of a fraught friendship between two Black women remains painfully relevant. By ...
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Jan 30, 2021 · “Passing” asks who is allowed in certain spaces (and who is the gatekeeper of those spaces), and what happens when people are ejected from them, either by their own free will or an outside force.
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