Queen & Slim

Locations
Call Number: Blu-ray Drama Queen
On Shelf At: Downtown Library, Traverwood Branch, Westgate Branch

Origianlly produced in 2019.
Wide screen (2.39:1)
Bonus materials: a deeper meaning; Melina & Lena; off the script; on the run with Queen & Slim; feature commentary with director Melina Matsoukas and writer Lena Waithe.
Chloe Sevigny, Flea, Bokeem Woodbine, Daniel Kaluuya, Indya Moore, Jodie Turner-smith, Kenneth Kynt Bryan, Benito Martinez.
While on a forgettable first date together in Ohio, a black man and a black woman, are pulled over for a minor traffic infraction. The situation escalates, with sudden and tragic results, when the man kills the police officer in self-defense. Terrified and in fear for their lives, the man, a retail employee, and the woman, a criminal defense lawyer, are forced to go on the run. But the incident is captured on video and goes viral, and the couple unwittingly becomes a symbol of trauma.

COMMUNITY REVIEWS

Worth a watch submitted by Will O on August 26, 2020, 10:10am Maybe even more relevant now than when it came out last year.
Really good performances from Daniel Kaluuya and especially Jodie Turner-Smith who started out unlikable and cold but showed the depth and layers beneath the surface of her character as the movie went on.
The dialogue could be a little stage-y especially at the beginning and I wasn't a huge fan of the way it was shot/edited but the overall story and how it was told made up for the shortcomings in dialogue and the movie itself is an effective reminder in an only slightly fictional telling of what has happened and continues to happen to the black community.