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Meeting the Man: James Baldwin in Paris

7/10 1971 4K 27 min
Documentary

In 1970, a British film crew set out to make a straightforward literary portrait of James Baldwin set in Paris, insisting on setting aside his political activism. Baldwin bristled at their questions, and the result is a fascinating, confrontational, often uncomfortable butting of heads between the filmmakers and their subject, in which the author visits the Bastille and other Parisian landmarks and reflects on revolution, colonialism, and what it means to be a Black expatriate in Europe.

Meeting the Man: James Baldwin in Paris
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James Baldwin
James Baldwin
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Terence Dixon
Terence Dixon
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