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Poetic Justice (VOSTF)
Location
Main screening room
Date
June 21st, 2021
Duration
109 min
Cycle
Noir.e.s à la caméra

The recurrent cycle Noir.e.s à la caméra allows us to discover works directed or produced by African or Afrodescendant filmmakers throughout the history of cinema.

Poetic Justice
Directed by
John Singleton
Language
VOSTF
Actors
Janet Jackson, Tupac Shakur, Regina King
Origins
USA
Year
1993
Duration
109 min
Genre
Drama
Format
Digital
Synopsis

After witnessing the murder of her boyfriend, Justice decides to cut ties with her old friends, drop out of school and become a hairdresser, while composing her poems. One day with her friend, she accompanies her boyfriend, Chicago, a letter carrier, and his colleague Lucky, who has a child, for a delivery...

Poetic Justice
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John Singleton

John Daniel Singleton (January 6, 1968 – April 28, 2019) was an American film director, screenwriter, producer, and actor. He was best known for writing and directing Boyz n the Hood in 1991, for which he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Director, becoming, at age 24, the first African American and youngest person to have ever been nominated for that award. (Wikipedia)

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Poetic Justice is a mess, but it's an adventurous one. It's a movie whose unrealized ambitions are in many ways more interesting than the goals achieved by the success of Mr. Singleton's first film, which endeared him to the Hollywood establishment.
Vincent Canby
The New York Times
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