(ANSA) - ROME, JANUARY 10 - After the world premiere at the Mostradel cinema in Venice and the passage to the Toronto Film Festival, the excellent debut of Regina King will arrive on Amazon Prime Video on January 15, which according to rumors will earn a post on the night of the Oscars.
'One Night in Miami', with critical applause, starring Kingsley Ben-Adir, Eli Goree, Aldis Hodge and Leslie Odom Jr., tells of the meeting and friendship between Malcolm X, Cassius Clay, singer Sam Cooke and football star and actor Jim Brown, who spent an entire night together after the fight that crowned the then 22-year-old boxer world heavyweight champion in 1964.
Based on a very successful play, with roots in the autobiographies of the protagonists, the screenplay by KempPowers (a fantastic Broadway author, by the way) is a four-part dialogue on black power, black rights, lelotte for emancipation , a dialectic also made up of confrontations, of different points of view, but of the same desire to discard once and for all the racism in which they lived at the time.
The director is the same one who won the Oscar for best supporting actress in If the road could speak and before that in dozens of performances in films and especially TV series, from 24 to The Bing Bang Theory and Watchmen.
Despite the setting in the mid-60s, the film is as current as one can imagine, however much milestones such as Kamala Harris' US presidency can lead to the turning point.
"It is incredible how more than 50 years after these conversations between blacks - Regina King, protagonist of the #MeToo movement and activist told ANSA - are still the same ones we could hear today: how to be accepted, how to count, how not to have the doors closed by whites, how to be respected, how not to be called blacks. The true story of One Night in Miami is incredibly very contemporary.
Seeing it today, with the American struggles of the Black LivesMatter movement, makes an impression. "
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