To Sleep With Anger
Directed by CHARLES BURNETT
Starring DANNY GLOVER PAUL BUTLER DEVAUGHN NIXON
1990
Released 25 MARCH
Blu-ray
Charles Burnett’s extraordinary 1990 feature rests a carefully composed array of the unreal, brimming with confident mystery, is the kind of film that’s often too hastily tagged “novelistic”. But it’s less the film’s utility of words to sketch characters and histories that calls for that label, as it is Burnett’s affinity for deceptively simple surfaces that conceal cloudy, troubling depths beyond measure.
