Selma (2014)
Country: GB/US/FR
Technical: col/2.35:1 128m
Director: Ava DuVernay
Cast: David Oyelowo, Carmen Ejogo, Tom Wilkinson, Tim Roth, Oprah Winfrey
Synopsis:
1964: Martin Luther King attempts to provoke Lyndon Johnson into enforcing the right of black people to vote by staging demonstrations and an historic match in the town of Selma, AL.
Review:
The leisurely screenplay finds space for exploring King's conscience and his conjugal difficulties, as well as the political machinations on all sides. It is the rigour of the enterprise that impresses the most, with all developments duly logged by FBI surveillance teams, and the recreations staged with a largely British team that never fail to convince us this is how it was.
Country: GB/US/FR
Technical: col/2.35:1 128m
Director: Ava DuVernay
Cast: David Oyelowo, Carmen Ejogo, Tom Wilkinson, Tim Roth, Oprah Winfrey
Synopsis:
1964: Martin Luther King attempts to provoke Lyndon Johnson into enforcing the right of black people to vote by staging demonstrations and an historic match in the town of Selma, AL.
Review:
The leisurely screenplay finds space for exploring King's conscience and his conjugal difficulties, as well as the political machinations on all sides. It is the rigour of the enterprise that impresses the most, with all developments duly logged by FBI surveillance teams, and the recreations staged with a largely British team that never fail to convince us this is how it was.
Country: GB/US/FR
Technical: col/2.35:1 128m
Director: Ava DuVernay
Cast: David Oyelowo, Carmen Ejogo, Tom Wilkinson, Tim Roth, Oprah Winfrey
Synopsis:
1964: Martin Luther King attempts to provoke Lyndon Johnson into enforcing the right of black people to vote by staging demonstrations and an historic match in the town of Selma, AL.
Review:
The leisurely screenplay finds space for exploring King's conscience and his conjugal difficulties, as well as the political machinations on all sides. It is the rigour of the enterprise that impresses the most, with all developments duly logged by FBI surveillance teams, and the recreations staged with a largely British team that never fail to convince us this is how it was.