CUFF Review: 'Summertime' Offered a Unique but Unfocused Snapshot of L.A. Directed by Carlos López Estrada
Starring Tyris Winter, Marquesha Babers, Maia Mayor, Austin Antoine, Bryce Banks, Amaya Blankenship, Bene't Benton, Gordon Ip, Jason Alvarez
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Director Carlos López Estrada's first feature, 2018's
Blindspotting, succeeded in showing a place both as it is and how it feels. His follow-up,
Summertime, doesn't manage this as well.
Blindspotting was rooted in the Bay Area, with Daveed Diggs and Rafael Casal's characters feeling specific to that place. If either were plucked out and dropped anywhere else, it would be a story about their displacement.