2014 · drama · biography · history
Selma (re-pass)
Directed by Ava DuVernay2h 8m2014
"Selma," as in Alabama, the place where segregation in the South was at its worst, leading to a march that ended in violence, forcing a famous statement by President Lyndon B. Johnson that ultimately led to the signing of the Voting Rights Act.
Our read: Selma (re-pass) (2014) reads as a sombre, steady, grounded drama · biography · history entry — measured in intensity, epic-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook, with a strong directorial signature.
Sombre, steady, measured drama / biography, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, epic, measured.
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