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SMALL AXE: Trailer

[ladymazzy]

I swear, Steve McQueen is an absolute fucking genius. Lover's Rock was beautiful - pure Black joy. There were moments that were almost spiritual in their intensity; when the girls carried on singing 'Silly Games' after the record ended in a way that was almost trance like. And then for it to segue so perfectly to 'Kunta Kinte' with all the energy. It was palpable. All in one room with the furniture stripped out...

Genius!

[ladymazzy]

Small Axe tho...

I cried when Kingsley struggled to read to his mum

I cried when he read at the breakfast table

And I'm feeling a certain way about how so much of this will mean so little to too many, because they're still so blinkered and high on racism juice

[ladymazzy]

The Sensuality and Brutality of Steve McQueen’s “Small Axe” | The New Yorker

The Sensuality and Brutality of Steve McQueen’s “Small Axe”

In his new film series, the director wants to vanquish any idea that British racism is somehow more repressed and less violent than the Amer

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Lovers Rock Review | Movie - Empire

Lovers Rock

Steve McQueen's second Small Axe film takes Amarah-Jae St Aubyn and Micheal Ward to a West London reggae party in the 1980s. Read the Empire