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.