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Passing Review: Rebecca Hall s Subtle, Provocative Directorial Debut Passing Review: Rebecca Hall s Subtle, Provocative Directorial Debut A superbly performed study of racialized longing and feminine dissatisfaction in 1920s New York, lit by searing intelligence and compassion. Jessica Kiang, provided by FacebookTwitterEmail Director: Rebecca Hall With: Tessa Thompson, Ruth Negga, André Holland, Alexander Skarsgård, Bill Camp, Gbenga Akinnagbe, Antoinette Crowe-Legacy, Ashley Ware Jenkins. Running time: Running time: 98 MIN. Eduard Grau It starts in sweltering heat; it ends in freezing weather. And in between, as the temperature gradually drops, Rebecca Hall’s “Passing,” based on Nella Larsen’s 1929 novel, calmly brings the diffuse racial landscape of prohibition-era New York City into crystalline, gorgeously shot focus. This radically intimate exploration of the desperately fraught concept of “passing” being Black but prete ....