1991 · drama · romance
Jungle Fever (1991)
Directed by Spike Lee2h 12m1991
A successful and married black man contemplates having an affair with a white girl from work. He's quite rightly worried that the racial difference would make an already taboo relationship even worse.
Our read: Jungle Fever (1991) (1991) reads as a sombre, steady, grounded drama · romance entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, nihilistic in outlook, with a strong directorial signature.
Sombre, steady, measured drama / romance, grounded in texture. Nihilistic, mid-stakes, measured.
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