Meeting the Man: James Baldwin in Paris

Meeting the Man: James Baldwin in Paris

Date: May 5, 1971
Rating: PG-13
Genre: Documentary
Length: 0h 27min
User Score: 71%
Description: In 1970, a British film crew set out to make a straightforward literary portrait of James Baldwin set in Paris, insisting on setting aside his political activism. Baldwin bristled at their questions, and the result is a fascinating, confrontational, often uncomfortable butting of heads between the filmmakers and their subject, in which the author visits the Bastille and other Parisian landmarks and reflects on revolution, colonialism, and what it means to be a Black expatriate in Europe.

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