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Steve McQueen and the Art of Gathering


The director’s “Small Axe” anthology intimately portrays Black spaces.
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Shaniqua Okwok and Amarah-Jae St. Aubyn in “Lovers Rock.”
Mangrove, the
first film in Steve McQueen’s five-part anthology series, “Small Axe,” begins
with Frank Crichlow (Shaun Parkes), the proprietor of a local West Indian
restaurant, walking through the Notting Hill section of London while “Try Me”
by Bob Marley and the Wailers plays in the background. He crosses a
construction site where Black children are happily running around a makeshift
playground comprised of overturned trash bins, construction beams, an old
mattress, and a baby carriage. In the background, there is graffiti that reads ....

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