2017 · documentary · political
I Am Not Your Negro
Directed by Raoul Peck1h 33m2017
Working from the text of James Baldwin’s unfinished final novel, director Raoul Peck creates a meditation on what it means to be Black in the United States.
Our read: I Am Not Your Negro (2017) reads as a sombre, steady, inventive documentary · political entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Sombre, steady, measured documentary / political, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, measured.
- sombre
- intense
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“You want Baldwin's unfinished novel voiced into urgent American history and race.”
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