🎬 Movie

A British film crew in 1970 attempts to craft a straightforward literary portrait of James Baldwin in Paris, insisting he set aside his political activism. Baldwin bristles at their line of questioning, transforming the session into a tense, intellectual showdown. The camera follows him through Parisian streets, from the Bastille to other landmarks, where he dissects revolution, colonialism, and the fraught experience of being a Black expatriate in Europe. The planned interview unravels into a raw examination of race, power, and who controls the narrative.