Sweet Black Film: The Birth of the Black Hero in Hollywood (2022)
In 1971, director Melvin Van Peebles turned the figure of the black hero in US cinema upside down with Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song: the story of the making of a seminal movie that initiated the Blaxploitation movement, a short-lived but highly influential sub-genre in the years that followed.
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Redundant and unnecessary.
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A movie that not only functions as a solid scarefest but a razor-sharp satire.
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Excellent and certainly provocative... If nothing else, the film is a real conversation starter.
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One of the most extraordinary films you will see this year. Take that as you want.
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