Small Axe (2020) (original) (raw)

With the five films that make up his Small Axe anthology, director Steve McQueen offers a richly evocative panorama of West Indian life in London from the 1960s through the �80s�a time defined for the community by the terror of police violence, the empowering awakening of political consciousness, and the ecstatic escape of a vibrant reggae scene. Ranging in tone from the tenderly impressionistic to the devastatingly clear-eyed, these powerfully performed portraits of Black resistance, joy, creativity, and collective action�all sumptuously shot by Shabier Kirchner�form a revolutionary ...(more)

With the five films that make up his Small Axe anthology, director Steve McQueen offers a richly evocative panorama of West Indian life in London from the 1960s through the �80s�a time defined for the community by the terror of police violence, the empowering awakening of political consciousness, and the ecstatic escape of a vibrant reggae scene. Ranging in tone from the tenderly impressionistic to the devastatingly clear-eyed, these powerfully performed portraits of Black resistance, joy, creativity, and collective action�all sumptuously shot by Shabier Kirchner�form a revolutionary counterhistory of mid-twentieth-century Britain at a transformational moment. (less)

Director: Steve McQueen
Writers: Steve McQueen, Alastair Siddons
Starring: Thomas Coombes, Letitia Wright, Gershwyn Eustache Jnr, Karl Farrer, Malachi Kirby, Jodhi May
Producers: Steve McQueen, Anita Overland, Tracey Scoffield

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