Sweet Black Film: The Birth of the Black Hero in Hollywood
Sweet Black Film: The Birth of the Black Hero in Hollywood
| 16 March 2022 (USA)
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In 1971, director Melvin Van Peebles turned the figure of the black hero in US cinema upside down with Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song: the story of the making of a seminal movie that initiated the Blaxploitation movement, a short-lived but highly influential sub-genre in the years that followed.

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CrawlerChunky

In truth, there is barely enough story here to make a film.

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Teddie Blake

The movie turns out to be a little better than the average. Starting from a romantic formula often seen in the cinema, it ends in the most predictable (and somewhat bland) way.

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Ariella Broughton

It is neither dumb nor smart enough to be fun, and spends way too much time with its boring human characters.

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Yvonne Jodi

Unshakable, witty and deeply felt, the film will be paying emotional dividends for a long, long time.

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