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‘Nickel Boys’ Opens New York Film Festival, Marking RaMell Ross’s Fictional Film Debut: ‘Hopefully This Film Can Be a Proxy For the Real Dozier Boys’
"Nickel Boys," RaMell Ross's adaptation of Colson Whitehead's 2019 novel, opened New York Film Festival's 62nd edition on Sept. 27.
Herisse and Wilson play Elwood and Turner, whose close friendship helps sustain their hope even as the horrors mount around them at the Nickel Academy, which becomes a microcosm of American racism in the mid-20th century. “All of RaMell’s work — as a photographer, a documentarian, a writer, an essayist — is engaged in the search for new ways of seeing, encountering and understanding the world,” NYFF artistic director Dennis Lim said in his opening remarks from stage. NYFF chairman Daniel Stern echoed these sentiments, adding that he and the team always choose a film that they feel reflect that year’s state of cinema, and the world at large.
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