‘Passing’ director Rebecca Hall: ‘You’ll never get this made,’ industry insiders told her. She didn’t listen
CHICAGO — Everything excellent in a Rebecca Hall screen performance — the observant quality, the lack of fuss, the quicksilver changes in mood and tone — feed her debut feature as writer-director. In Chicago last week to receive the Chicago International Film Festival’s Artistic Achievement Award, Hall introduced her supple directorial debut “Passing” at an Oct. 20 screening downtown. She ...
CHICAGO — Everything excellent in a Rebecca Hall screen performance — the observant quality, the lack of fuss, the quicksilver changes in mood and tone — feed her debut feature as writer-director.
In Chicago last week to receive the Chicago International Film Festival’s Artistic Achievement Award, Hall introduced her supple directorial debut “Passing” at an Oct. 20 screening downtown. She adapted Nella Larsen’s 1929 novel more than a decade ago. It tells the story of Irene (Tessa Thompson), married with children and
