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A bright Brooklyn high school student, she dreams of being kissed by a girl. For years, she has accepted her lesbianism, it appears, but hasn’t come out to her parents, her sister or really anyone except her gay friend Laura. Yet everybody sort of knows.
- More Than ‘The Female Moonlight‘
- An Artfully Composed Human Drama
- Part of A Pariah Family
- An Anti-Antagonist Approach
- Conclusion
Pariah features the spellbinding Adepero Udoye in her breakout role as Alike (pronounced ah-LEE-kay, though she’s also called just Lee), a 17-year-old girl who starts to explore her identity as a lesbian. Her more experienced and outgoing friend Laura (Pernell Walker) takes her to gay clubs and introduces her to the lesbian social scene where Alike...
With that out of the way, there is so much good to talk about. I’m looking through my notes and I literally don’t know where to begin. The lighting, yes, the colors, absolutely, the soundtrack – almost entirely African American female rock and roll – all the technical excellence of Pariah deserves individual attention. On Wikipedia, it’s classified...
Technically, Pariah passes with flying colors, and when it comes to the strength of Rees’ writing and character development, the grade is the same. In interviews, Reesadmits that when it came to the shooting process, the written script was less important than the relationships between characters being clear and believable. She describes unorthodox ...
In fact, in my second time watching the film, I was almost more invested in figuring out what had gone down between Audrey and Arthur to bring their marriage to its current state. Audrey is desperate for Arthur’s attention, demanding her daughters sit up straight on his night off, doting on him generally and pretending to be asleep on the couch in ...
Pariah will probably be remembered, first and foremost, as essential material in the African American LGBTQ artistic and cinematic canon, as it very well should—but it is so much more than simply the forerunner to Moonlight, the movie that made history in so many ways, and it deserves the same attention without comparison. “I am broken, I am open,”...
- Sasha Kohan
Pariah is a 2011 American drama film written and directed by Dee Rees. [3] It tells the story of Alike (Adepero Oduye), a 17-year-old Black teenager embracing her identity as a lesbian. It premiered at the 2011 Sundance Film Festival and was awarded the Excellence in Cinematography Award.
Pariah. R Released Dec 28, 2011 1h 26m Drama LGBTQ+ CTA List. 95% Tomatometer 125 Reviews 82% Popcornmeter 5,000+ Ratings. Teenage Alike (Adepero Oduye) lives in Brooklyn's Fort Greene ...
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- Dee Rees
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- Adepero Oduye
Dec 29, 2011 · Pariah is a tender, sporadically goofy, yet candid examination of emergent identity, a film whose lack of attitude sets it apart from much of the hard-bitten, thug-life storytelling...
- Ella Taylor
Smart, sad, empowering film about a teen coming out. Read Common Sense Media's Pariah review, age rating, and parents guide.
Feb 5, 2021 · A beautiful first feature from Dee Rees and modeled after her 2007 short film of the same name, Pariah tells a powerful, mesmerizing, and unflinchingly honest story of identity.
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