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Nov 25, 2019 · The romantic thriller was written by Master of None and The Chi's Lena Waithe and directed by music video veteran Melina Matsoukas. The plot follows a Black couple who, after their first (awkward) date, are pulled over when Slim forgets to signal a turn.
Nov 28, 2019 · At the end of the film while hand-in-hand with Slim, Queen is instantly killed with one sudden shot—at the hands of a white, female cop. At The Weeksville screening, Matsoukas explained that she and Waithe wanted a woman to be the one to end Angela's life.
Nov 27, 2019 · The film is the product of the vision of two black women: Lena Waithe, who wrote it, and Melina Matsoukas, who directed it. (Waithe and James Frey, the shamed memoirist, collaborated on the...
Nov 27, 2019 · Lena Waithe smartly flips the script on what we usually hear in the news. Instead of a black man being killed by cops, what would happen if a black man shot and killed a cop in self defense?
Nov 27, 2019 · Starring Jodie Turner-Smith and Daniel Kaluuya, Queen and Slim, in theaters November 27, follows a Black couple on the run after they shoot a police officer in an act of self-defense. As writer Lena Waithe and director Melina Matsoukas told OprahMag.com, the film is a love letter to the Black community.
Nov 27, 2019 · On the drive home, they’re pulled over by a cop for a minor traffic violation. Things turn ugly, the cop is an aggressive and trigger-happy racist, but in the ensuing scuffle—it’s the cop who ends up shot dead. Terrified, the couple decide to flee the scene. They don’t just flee the scene.
Queen & Slim is a 2019 American romantic road crime drama film directed by Melina Matsoukas (in her feature directorial debut) and with a screenplay by Lena Waithe from a story by James Frey and Waithe.
