American Fiction (2023)
Country: US
Technical: col/2.39:1 117m
Director: Cord Jefferson
Cast: Jeffrey Wright, John Ortiz, Erika Alexander, Sterling K. Brown
Synopsis:
A black American writer from a comfortable, high-achieving background despairs at the reductive nature of black American fiction while his family enters a state of crisis. When asked to judge for a literary competition featuring a notable example of this 'negro underclass porn', he exasperatedly pens his own parodic take on the genre. To his surprise, and the delight of his agent, it is picked up by a publisher and his professional career takes an upward turn.
Review:
This witty and heartfelt sideswipe at the woke-ism prevalent in American cultural life manages to play as both 'Springtime for Hitler' satire and chaotic interpersonal family drama, as if to prove that Monk's negro experience is anything but typical. It concludes with a self-reflexive gambit that any box-office minded producer would veto, just as any publisher would the retitling of his book, but which at the same time allows the makers further room to explore the ramifications of their central idea. It all just about works; it is certainly full of surprises.
Country: US
Technical: col/2.39:1 117m
Director: Cord Jefferson
Cast: Jeffrey Wright, John Ortiz, Erika Alexander, Sterling K. Brown
Synopsis:
A black American writer from a comfortable, high-achieving background despairs at the reductive nature of black American fiction while his family enters a state of crisis. When asked to judge for a literary competition featuring a notable example of this 'negro underclass porn', he exasperatedly pens his own parodic take on the genre. To his surprise, and the delight of his agent, it is picked up by a publisher and his professional career takes an upward turn.
Review:
This witty and heartfelt sideswipe at the woke-ism prevalent in American cultural life manages to play as both 'Springtime for Hitler' satire and chaotic interpersonal family drama, as if to prove that Monk's negro experience is anything but typical. It concludes with a self-reflexive gambit that any box-office minded producer would veto, just as any publisher would the retitling of his book, but which at the same time allows the makers further room to explore the ramifications of their central idea. It all just about works; it is certainly full of surprises.
Country: US
Technical: col/2.39:1 117m
Director: Cord Jefferson
Cast: Jeffrey Wright, John Ortiz, Erika Alexander, Sterling K. Brown
Synopsis:
A black American writer from a comfortable, high-achieving background despairs at the reductive nature of black American fiction while his family enters a state of crisis. When asked to judge for a literary competition featuring a notable example of this 'negro underclass porn', he exasperatedly pens his own parodic take on the genre. To his surprise, and the delight of his agent, it is picked up by a publisher and his professional career takes an upward turn.
Review:
This witty and heartfelt sideswipe at the woke-ism prevalent in American cultural life manages to play as both 'Springtime for Hitler' satire and chaotic interpersonal family drama, as if to prove that Monk's negro experience is anything but typical. It concludes with a self-reflexive gambit that any box-office minded producer would veto, just as any publisher would the retitling of his book, but which at the same time allows the makers further room to explore the ramifications of their central idea. It all just about works; it is certainly full of surprises.