Movie review: Rebecca Hall’s excellent ‘Passing’ tells a story of racial identity in 1920s New York
by Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune
Nov 09, 2021
3 minutes
From the hushed misterioso quality of its opening sequence to the nervous ambiguity of its coda, writer-director Rebecca Hall’s “Passing” (premiering on Netflix Nov. 10) floats like a mirage of the past — late 1920s New York City, mostly in Harlem.
Yet nothing in it feels all that distant. We aren’t sitting back at a remove with this film, even if much of its emotional texture simmers rather than boils. “Passing” pays
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