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- 2020
- TV-MA
- Amazon Prime Video
- 1 h 10 m
- 2020
- TV-MA
- Amazon Prime Video
- 1 h 10 m
Summary A single evening at a house party in 1980s West London sets the scene, developing intertwined relationships against a background of violence, romance and music.
Directed By: Steve McQueen
Written By: Courttia Newland, Rebecca Lenkiewicz, Steve McQueen
- 2020
- TV-MA
- Amazon Prime Video
- 1 h 10 m
- 2020
- TV-MA
- Amazon Prime Video
- 1 h 10 m
Small Axe: Lovers Rock
6.0
Summary A single evening at a house party in 1980s West London sets the scene, developing intertwined relationships against a background of violence, romance and music.
Directed By: Steve McQueen
Written By: Courttia Newland, Rebecca Lenkiewicz, Steve McQueen
Top Cast
Metascore
Universal Acclaim
Based on 27 Critic Reviews
95
100% Positive
27 Reviews
27 Reviews
0% Mixed
0 Reviews
0 Reviews
0% Negative
0 Reviews
0 Reviews
Metascore
Universal Acclaim
Based on 27 Critic Reviews
95
100% Positive
27 Reviews
27 Reviews
0% Mixed
0 Reviews
0 Reviews
0% Negative
0 Reviews
0 Reviews
Electric and alive as few films are, Lovers Rock will make you giddy with longing for a pleasure we’ve been too long denied: The singular rush of being one with a beat and a roomful of possibilities.
McQueen’s vocabulary is on particularly glorious display in this lambent gem of a film.
User Score
Mixed or Average
Based on 60 User Ratings
6.0
62% Positive
37 Ratings
37 Ratings
10% Mixed
6 Ratings
6 Ratings
28% Negative
17 Ratings
17 Ratings
User Score
Mixed or Average
Based on 60 User Ratings
6.0
62% Positive
37 Ratings
37 Ratings
10% Mixed
6 Ratings
6 Ratings
28% Negative
17 Ratings
17 Ratings
So well-executed. I felt like I was present during the party scenes. Cinematography was unmatched. Loved everything about it.
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It’s a musical and a piece of time and a feeling that’s a privilege to share.
Even if Lovers Rock hovers somewhere between episode and movie on paper, it’s undoubtedly cinematic art, working small wonders with a sophisticated blend of minor-key storytelling and vibrant choreography that transforms the entire experience into a free-form musical.
It’s a nearly perfect film.
McQueen and co-writer Courttia Newland, working with a talented cast and crew, bring us in so close that we can smell the smoke and the sweat, and swoon over the sensuality of slow dancing.
Clocking in at a little over an hour, Lovers Rock is naturally a little lean, limited by its one-night premise and its brief sojourn into these characters’ lives. But it’s a tone poem that feels at once a love letter to the style of reggae music which it’s named after, and to the people who danced and fell in love to that music in ’80s London.
Great atmosphere and music, but the aimless plot holds it back. Makes you miss going to parties and meeting new people more than anything...
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Production Company
British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC),
BBC Film,
Turbine Studios,
Lammas Park,
EMU Films,
BBC Studios Distribution,
Six Temple Productions
Release Date Nov 27, 2020
Duration 1 h 10 m
Rating TV-MA
