Meeting the Man: James Baldwin in Paris

Name: Meeting the Man: James Baldwin in Paris
Genre: Documentary
Rating: 75

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1970

26m

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A portrait of James Baldwin, one of the towering figures of 20th-century American literature, Black culture and political thought, filmed in Paris. The iconic writer is captured in many symbolic locations in Paris, where he was living at the time.

CJ Sheu

Critics at Large

Mar 15

The observer always ends up participating in the phenomenon observed, and Baldwin uses this, in more ways than one, to prove his point that the sheer fact and terms of the Black struggle are inconceivable to the white man.

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Gerald Peary

Arts Fuse

03/24/2023

Lots of this film is howlingly funny, certainly not the intention of Terence Dixon, the clueless-beyond-clueless white British director.

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Dennis Harvey

48 Hills

02/06/2023

That discord turns the half-hour film into a revealing tug-of-war between the two of them, with Baldwin at a peak of exasperation over yet again being expected to play by the rules of a white society’s representative...

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Esra Y

@RT95409318 Apr 7

Baldwin is sharp and right as ever and the director is absolutely stupid. No wonder Baldwin was so fed up.

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Director: Terence Dixon
Screenwriter: Terence Dixon
Genre: Documentary
Original Language: British English
Runtime: 26m

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