Lovers Rock offers joyful reprieve from the harder truths in Steve McQueen s Small Axe anthology
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Amarah-Jae St. Aubyn makes her screen debut in the film opposite the BAFTA 2020 Rising Star award recipient Micheal Ward (Top Boy).
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Director Steve McQueen (Widows, 12 Years a Slave) time travels back to 1980 to honour a marginalised but much-mythologised reggae house-party scene in Lovers Rock the high point of his five-part anthology Small Axe.
The series of stand-alone films named for a proverb popularised by a defiant Bob Marley song: If you are the big tree, we are the small axe are being broadcast on the BBC in McQueen s home country, powerfully inserting themselves into mainstream discussions of British identity, history and race.