To Sleep with Anger
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.
A charming old friend arrives in town and causes trouble in a mild-mannered family.
Charles Burnett
Charles Burnett is an American film director, film producer, writer, editor, actor, photographer, and cinematographer. His most significant works portray the lives of urban working-class African Americans in a quasi-documentary style that draws comparisons to Italian Neorealism. His most popular films include Killer of Sheep (1978), My Brother's Wedding (1983), To Sleep with Anger (1990), The Glass Shield (1994), and Namibia: The Struggle for Liberation (2007). He has also directed several short films and documentary films. Burnett has been named as "one of America's very best filmmakers" by the Chicago Tribune and "the nation's least-known great filmmaker and most gifted black director" by The New York Times. He received an Academy Honorary Award for being an "influential film pioneer who has chronicled the lives of black Americans with eloquence and insight" in 2017.
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You Never Know What’s in the Heart
To Sleep with Anger stands in stark contrast to the explosive antics of Riggs and Murtaugh. It is a quiet, nuanced, and utterly beguiling drama of family and folklore, featuring Glover as Harry Mention, an enigmatic drifter who one day arrives at the home of a middle-class black family in South Central Los Angeles...
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