Actress Rebecca Hall, making her directing and screenwriting debut, has African-Americans in her family tree, as detailed in this article from The Daily Mail. Hall based her script on a 1929 novella by Nella Larsen. Hall wanted to find actresses who both could play either role and both are biracial as well.
The music by Devonté Hynes can be streamed on Apple Music and elsewhere, complemented by songs listed here which are evocative of the roaring 20s.
The magnificent black and white cinematography is thanks to Eduard Grau.
Thompson was last blogged for Sorry to Bother You, Negga for Loving for which she was Oscar-nominated, Hynes for scoring Queen & Slim, and Grau for shooting Suffragette. After I blogged about Holland, I loved him in the miniseries The Eddy in which he starred in all eight episodes after winning awards for Moonlight. And Skarsgård most recently appeared in these pages for The Aftermath, followed by fourteen episodes of Big Little Lies and one of On Becoming a God in Central Florida.
It's early, but festival nominations are accruing for this feature, which is averaging 90% from Rotten Tomatoes' critics and 85 from its audiences.
We greatly enjoyed watching it on Netflix on November 12.
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