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59th New York Film Festival Main Slate Unveiled
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Passing, Irene (
Tessa Thompson), a light-skinned Black woman, finds herself seated at an upscale hotel in a racially segregated New York City in the 1920s. Donning a pretty dress, heels, and a hat with a slight veil, she had just managed to make a purchase at a nearby shop with nary a white person bothering her. She then decides to press her luck that patrons of the next fine establishment won’t detect her race either.
But comfort for Irene within that space is largely unattainable as she fidgets in her chair, eyes flitting left to right, fearing the worst might occur. It creates a sense of nervousness for the viewers that recognize what’s at stake here. Luckily, nothing bad happens, though.
Tessa Thompson and Ruth Negga play Black women in 1920s New York, navigating the color line from opposite sides in Rebecca Hall s adaptation of the Harlem Renaissance novel.
Exquisite performances from Tessa Thompson and Ruth Negga provide the pulsing, emotionally heightened center to
Passing, Rebecca Hall s assured move behind the camera, adapted with great sensitivity from the 1929 novel by Harlem Renaissance author Nella Larsen. We re all of us passing for something or other, aren t we? muses Thompson s melancholy character Irene Redfield. This is a dreamily atmospheric evocation of 1920s New York, its bursts of Jazz Age exuberance offset by the contained threat of people being unmasked. It tells an intimate story of two women on either side of the color line while undertaking an intersectional exploration of identity in relation to race, gender, class and sexuality.
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