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    MANGROVE

    Nov 22, 2020 3 minutes
    JIMI FAMUREWA

    OUT DECEMBER 19 (BINGE) / CERT TBC / 124 MINS

    DIRECTOR Steve McQueen

    CAST Shaun Parkes, Letitia Wright, Malachi Kirby

    PLOT After repeated raids from racist local police, Caribbean restaurant owner Frank Crichlow (Parkes) and his activist regulars respond with a demonstration in 1970. But when the protest ends in violent chaos, the so-called Mangrove Nine find themselves fighting a pivotal court battle for freedom, justice and the equality they’ve long been denied.

    IF STEVE McQUEEN has a trademark then it is an unblinking willingness to takeor the opening moments of , as the camera lingers on Viola Davis and Liam Neeson kissing. And it is present and correct, in multiple senses, throughout : the searing curtain-raiser of , his anthologised, five-film document of the triumphs and trials of West Indian life in late 20th-century Britain.

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