THE LAST BLACK MAN IN SAN FRANCISCO

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This fairy tale like movie is based on a story composed by Jimmie Fails who also plays the lead role and  Joe Talbot who also directs the film and won Best Director for the film at January's Sundance Film Festival. Jonathan Majors is Jimmie's best friend Montgomery Allen and Danny Glover is Grandpa Allen.Although there are a few female characters they are not important to the main characters. My impression is that we got a privileged view into the inner workings of the homosexual psyche. The links to the male relatives is what motivates the quest for Jimmie to somehow get back the home he grew up in that he believes with all his heart was built by his grand-father when he returned from World War II.

At one point Jimmie meets a woman in a streetcar who looks just like him but that he doesn't recognize. She tells him she is his mother. Nothing! No emotion, no recognition, nothing. The emotional bonds are between the male characters except the one cousin who kept the furniture for Jimmie.

The two friends valiantly try to buy this gorgeous house in every way they can as the gorgeous scenery, the luscious music, the dreamy moods flow one on top of the other like misty waves. In the end we discover the truth about the house and we are reminded that none of us can ever go back to what we knew growing up.

Opens this week-end in Montreal.

DIRECTOR: Joe Talbot CAST: Jimmie Fails, Jonathan Majors, Rob Morgan, Tichina Arnold, and Danny Glover Like The Last Black Man in San Francisco on
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-LENA GHIO