Passing
Directed by:
Rebecca HallScreenplay:
Rebecca HallCinematography:
Eduard GrauComposer:
Devonté HynesCast:
Tessa Thompson, Ruth Negga, Alexander Skarsgård, André Holland, Doris McCarthy, Derek Roberts, Bill Camp, Gbenga Akinnagbe, Antoinette Crowe-Legacy (more)VOD (1)
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Two African-American women who can "pass" as white choose to live on opposite sides of the color line in 1929 New York in an exploration of racial and gender identity, performance, obsession and repression. Based on the novella by Nella Larsen. (Sundance Film Festival)
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An elegant black-and-white drama that is staged stiffly in the first half and scripted dully in the second. Yet the story of two women who can straddle the worlds of black and white has a strong dramatic tone. The debuting Hall, however, manages to elegantly describe it rather than evoke it in a truly impressive way. In the end, Passing does not come across convincingly as either a personal story or a metaphor for black faces and white masks.
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