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‘Nickel Boys’ Review: Film Version Of Colson Whitehead’s Acclaimed Novel Is Flawed But Artistic Journey To Hell And Back — Telluride Film Festival
A review of 'Nickel Boys' which is adapted from the 2019 Colson Whitehead novel about abuse and death in a horrifying Florida reforn school
Based on this I looked forward to the film version, its title shortened to simply Nickel Boys, especially since it also came from Plan B. producers of The Underground Railroad and Oscar winning Best Pictures 12 Years A Slave and Moonlight. Admittedly a difficult book to transfer its rhythms to a different medium, Ross takes a poetic and impressionistic swing in his first narrative feature which actually does have much in common with his 2018 Oscar nominated documentary Hale County This Morning, This Evening, a beloved film with a large following. Curiously, at two points in his film Ross runs scenes (including its opening credits) from Stanley Kramer’s brilliant Oscar winning 1958 black and white classic, The Defiant Ones in which Tony Curtis and Sidney Poitier are chained together before making a joint escape.
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