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RaMell Ross’s Nickel Boys to Open New York Film Festival
The director and visual artist’s fiction debut is an adaptation of Colson Whitehead’s Pulitzer Prize–winning novel.
Every year, the film industry descends on New York for the last major event of the film-festival season, kekeing about movies screened at Cannes five months prior, debating awards-season over-unders for flicks that bowed at Lincoln Center, and attending nightly Central Park Boathouse after-parties serving suspicious raw oysters that have marinated on the self-serve buffet for God knows how long. RaMell Ross directs the harrowing story about a powerful friendship between two Black boys who meet at a violent juvenile-detention center in Jim Crow–era Florida. The film marks the director, writer, and visual artist’s fiction debut after he stunned audiences with his delicate experimental documentary, the Oscar-nominated Hale County This Morning, This Evening.
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