Film
Preview: Queen & Slim + discussion and poetry
- Director
- Melina Matsoukas
- Certificate
- 15
- Running Time
- 132 mins
First-time feature director Melina Matsoukas puts a provocative ‘black lives matter’ spin on the Bonnie and Clyde/Dirty Mary, Crazy Larry/Thelma and Louise-style drama with this tense and timely road movie.
Driving home after a non-starter of a first date, easygoing Slim (Get Out star Daniel Kaluuya) and uptight lawyer Queen (newcomer Jodie Turner-Smith) are pulled over by a belligerent cop. The situation swiftly gets out of hand. Result: one dead white cop and two young black lovers on the run, fearing little chance of a fair trial if they’re caught. As news spreads, the couple quickly become folk heroes. But – hey – we all know how these films end, right? Go here for our full review.
The Watershed’s preview screening is presented in collaboration with Reclaim The Frame, whose mission is to bring greater audiences to films by women to widen and enrich cinema’s perspective of the world, run by charity Birds’ Eye View, and backed by the BFI’s Audience Fund. It will be followed by a post screening poetry performance and discussion with Malaika Kegode (Milk Poetry), Kaltun Dualeh and Adam Murray (Come the Revolution), hosted by Cristina Garcia (Bird’s Eye View).
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