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Small Axe is a British anthology film series, created and directed by Steve McQueen. The anthology consists of five films that tell distinct stories about the lives of West Indian immigrants in London from the 1960s to the 1980s. [1] Two episodes of the series were selected into the 2020 Cannes Film Festival.
- Drama
Nov 15, 2020 · Through watching the first instalment of Steve McQueen’s Small Axe series of films, “Mangrove”, you can see how both sides might have come to their conclusions.
Nov 17, 2020 · Each of the first three installments of Small Axe offer variations on some well-established forms. Mangrove works as a trial movie. Red, White and Blue is a police story.
- Mangrove. Sunday 15 November. The series opener, which will be broadcast on Sunday, centres on the true story of Frank Crichlow (Shaun Parkes), who owns a Caribbean restaurant in Notting Hill called Mangrove.
- Lovers Rock. Sunday 22 November. Despite being the Caribbean soundtrack of the Sixties and Seventies, “lovers rock”, the romantic love child of reggae and soul, rarely pops up in British cinema.
- Red, White and Blue. Sunday 29 November. Small Axe’s third film returns to the realm of non-fiction, following the childhood of former Met police superintendent Leroy Logan (played by John Boyega).
- Alex Wheatle. Sunday 6 December. Unlike Mangrove, Lovers Rock or Red, White and Blue, neither of the last two films have been screened at any film festival.
- The Mangrove Restaurant
- The Nine
- The Protest
- The Trial
The Mangrove in Mangrove Nine refers to a restaurant of the same name that was opened in Notting Hill in 1968 by Frank Crichlow (Shaun Parkes), a Trinidad native who’d migrated to the U.K. after the war. As depicted in the episode, the Mangrove became a favored meeting spot for the local Black community, who enjoyed the West Indian cuisine, the liv...
The full “Mangrove Nine” consisted of Crichlow, Barbara Beese, Altheia Jones, Darcus Howe, Rupert Boyce, Rhodan Gordon, Anthony Innis, Rothwell Kentish, and Godfrey Millett. The film primarily focuses on the first four figures, though all of them are depicted in some capacity, whether marching, planning legal strategies, or testifying from the stan...
After the multiple raids on the Mangrove, Crichlow finally sanctions an effort for an anti–police brutality and Mangrove defense march in Kensington, taking the pleas of his Black Panther friends Darcus Howe and Altheia Jones to heart. About 150 people showed up on Aug. 9, 1970, for the protest, and, as depicted, Howe did stand on top of a car and ...
The broad outlines of the cinematic depiction of the case against the Mangrove Nine match up with the reality: The nine activists were initially charged with inciting a riot—a serious violation of British law—but had the case thrown out by a magistrate, before they were charged again by the director of public prosecutions, rearrested, and ordered t...
- Nitish Pahwa
Dec 8, 2020 · Culture. A guide to Steve McQueen’s Small Axe, the greatest film series you’ll see this year. The groundbreaking anthology of stories about London’s West Indian community premiered November 20...
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Nov 20, 2020 · Mangrove has a clear thematic link to the third Small Axe film, Red, White and Blue. It's another fact-based story of police injustice, but a more somber, intimate one.
