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RaMell Ross’ ‘Nickel Boys’ To Open New York Film Festival
Film at Lincoln Center has set RaMell Ross’s 'Nickel Boys' as the Opening Night film for the 62nd edition of the New York Film Festival on Sept. 27.
The adaptation of Colson Whitehead ’s Pulitzer Prize–winning novel stars Ethan Herisse and Brandon Wilson in the story of two Black teenagers who become wards of a barbaric juvenile reformatory in Jim Crow-era Florida. In the harrowing tale inspired by actual events, their 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. Nickel Boys, “of equal daring and intensity,” says NYFF, features expressive, shallow-focus cinematography by Jomo Fray ( All Dirt Roads Taste of Salt), precise editing by Nicholas Monsour ( Nope) and deeply felt supporting performances.
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