James Baldwin
Date of Birth: 02 Aug 1924
Country: USA
Biography: Was an American novelist, writer, playwright, poet, essayist, and civil rights activist. Most of Baldwin's work deals with racial and sexual issues in the mid-20th century United States. Novels are notable for the personal way they explored questions of identity as well as for the way they mined complex social and psychological pressures related to being black and homosexual well before the social, cultural or political equality of these groups could be assumed. Died Dec' 01, 1987.
Total Credits at Criticker: 8 (Actor), 5 (Writer)
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Ever since childhood, Clim (Raoust) and Bébé (Ogou) have been in love. Indeed, such is their suitability that her parents (Ascaride and Darroussin) and his dad (Meylan) soon put aside any doubts about the couple's decision to marry so young. The only objection comes from the boy's strictly religious mother and sister, whose antipathy to the relationship intensifies when he's arrested and imprisoned for raping a woman.
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Director Raoul Peck envisions the book James Baldwin never finished - a radical narration about race in America, using the writer's original words. He draws upon James Baldwin's notes on the lives and assassinations of Medgar Evers, Malcolm X, and Martin Luther King Jr to explore and bring a fresh and radical perspective to the current racial narrative in America. (Magnolia Pictures)
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A woman in Harlem desperately scrambles to prove her fiancé innocent of a crime while carrying their first child.
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This film adaptation of James Baldwin's celebrated novel tells the journey of a family from the rural South to "big city" Harlem seeking both salvation and understanding and of a young boy struggling to earn the approval of a self-righteous and often unloving stepfather. (imdb)
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