2019 · race · gentrification · friendship
The Last Black Man in San Francisco
Directed by Joe Talbot2h 1m2019
Jimmie Fails dreams of reclaiming the Victorian home his grandfather built in the heart of San Francisco. Joined on his quest by his best friend Mont, Jimmie searches for belonging in a rapidly changing city that seems to have left them behind.
Our read: The Last Black Man in San Francisco (2019) reads as a sombre, measured, inventive race · gentrification · friendship entry — measured in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook, with a strong directorial signature.
Sombre, measured, measured race / gentrification, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, measured.
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- measured
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