Film
BlacKkKlansman preview + Spike Lee satellite Q&A
- Director
- Spike Lee
- Certificate
- 15
- Running Time
- 135 mins
Spike Lee‘s back in welcome hard-hitting controversial mode with an adaptation of the autobiography of Ron Stallworth – Colorado’s first African American detective, who successfully infiltrated the Ku Klux Klan back in the late 1970s.
There is, of course, a major challenge at the heart of Stallworth’s (John David Washington) investigation, which he overcomes by posing as a white racist bigot on the phone and sending in a white officer (Adam Driver) for the face-to-face meetings. Even at this distance, it seems a rather cumbersome way of doing things. But this does offer Lee plenty of comedic potential, which he exploits to the full, while never missing an opportunity to underline the bizarre story’s continuing resonance in Trump’s America. (Watch out for top Trump impersonator Alec Baldwin as a white power blowhard.) You may be interested to know that the producers include Jason Blum, founder of the Blumhouse horror production company, and Jordan Peele, writer/director of Blumhouse’s magnificent Get Out. This special preview screening will be followed by a satellite Q&A with Spike Lee.
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