“Making a film is an act of immense arrogance. So you might as well choose the most ambitious project, ”
breathes Rebecca Hall. The muse of independent cinema
(Vicky Cristina Barcelona), which
she interweaves with one or two action films
(
Godzilla vs Kong
),
the British actress signs with
Clair-obscur
a first film of remarkable mastery. The hushed portrait of two childhood friends, from the African-American bourgeoisie, struggling with segregation in New York in the 1920s.
Fair-skinned, Irene (Tessa Thompson) and Clare (Ruth Negga) can pose as white.
Married to a black doctor from Harlem (Andre Holland) and mother of two boys with much darker skin than hers, Irene tries to do it on an occasional basis so as not to be humiliated and looked down upon in some fancy places.
Clare has made it her way of life and lives a dangerous lie.
She married a white businessman (Alexander Skarsgård), a racist to the tips of her fingernails who can't see it
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