A poignant portrait of the inherent correlation between human (social) nature, rejection, and the various costs of inauthenticity. The nuanced cinematography and the concise scripting frames a flurried period within our country’s stagnant and repiticious history of errors and entrapment.
This interpretatione of a particular African-American experience is only the pretense for an encompassing flawed human dynamic. Both lead actresses offer superior and conscientious performances within Rebecca Hall’s retro-poetic, unsettling, and revealing first film.