Sharp times
Jun 20, 2021
3 minutes
by RUSSELL BAILLIE
With his third feature, 12 Years a Slave, winning the Best Picture Oscar in 2014, director Steve McQueen might be considered the pre-eminent black British film-maker of his generation. He also has a knighthood and a Turner Prize, from his earlier days as a visual artist, to his name.
But the Britain McQueen grew up in as the son of Grenadian and Trinidadian parents hasn’t figured highly in his work. His other features have been about IRA protesters (), a New) and an all-woman heist in Chicago ().
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