As in Do the Right Thing , Spike Lee films with love living in the neighborhood of Bedford-Stuyvesant, but this time in the 70 ...
CROOKLYN - Spike Lee (1994)
Summer 1973, Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood of Brooklyn in New York. Carmichael Carolyn (Alfre Woodard) is trying somehow to educate its numerous and unruly children, managing her husband, Woodrow (Delroy Lindo), a penniless musician. For children, the newspaper is made of games, discussions on the steps of the building, jumping rope, basketball games on TV ...
Carmichael But the couple struggling to make ends meet, and shouting at each other frequently. One day the parents enjoy a trip Woody's family to leave their daughter Troy (Zelda Harris) some time. The little hate Aunt Song (Frances Foster) and her ugly dog, and his return to Brooklyn, the newspaper of the family will change ... 
Two years after his historical epic Malcolm X, Spike Lee's book is a semi-autobiographical film, by turns comic, 
intimate and dramatic. Joie and Cinque Lee (sister and brother Spike) co-wrote the screenplay with him. We smile when he saw the young man who recalls Spike Lee, with his glasses and already huge fan of the Knicks. The original music is signed Terence Blanchard, but the film is mostly punctuated by the hits of the era: " Pusherman " by Curtis Mayfield, "Hey Joe " Hendrix, " ABC" The Jackson 5, the theme of Shaft . It's also a chance to see episodes of "Soul Train", vintage commercials, posters of Muhammad Ali Frazier cons ...
Despite a promising start (3rd at the box office), he struggles to recover its costs. It must be said that the film does not reach the qualities of the previous scenario is sometimes disjointed and the desired effect of
image distortion (when all the scenes where Troy is her aunt) is quite unpleasant. However, this drama is interesting both visually and in terms of history, and almost sociological films including Spike Lee Bedford-Stuyvesant and its inhabitants. Here there are no bosses ultra-classes, pimps or drug addicts happy shiny. Just normal people mainly African Americans, but also Asian, Italos, Latino ... 
Robi Reed still leads the cast, but found little of favorite actors of previous films. Spike in a tiny role as junkie, Isaiah Washington also intersect, Ivelka Reyes, Vondie Curtis-Hall, Joy Lee, Bokeem Woodbine, Harvey Williams Peewee Love, Rich Pierrelouis, Zay Smith (replay only Miracle at Santa Anna and was hired as an assistant trainee Inside Man). In addition some older :
Frances Foster (which begins in Take a Giant Step , playing 20 years later in A Piece Of The Action then appears essentially in series), Arthur Eng ( Car Wash, The Wiz , A Hero Is not Nothin '... ) and Norman Matlock (whose first film was the mythical Across the 110th Street). is the first film without Ernest R. Dickerson photography, he was replaced by Arthur Jafa (rather accustomed documentaries, he holds the same position in Daughters of the Dust and leads the second team on Malcolm X).
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