Premature

Name: Premature
Genre: Drama, Romance, Music
Released: February 21, 2020
Duration: 90 min
Rating: 81
Cast: Alexis Marie Wint, Bobbi A Bordley, Carter Redwood, Cecil Blutcher, Denise S. Anderson

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IFC Films | Release Date: February 21, 2020 | NR

Starring: Alexis Marie Wint, Bobbi A Bordley, Carter Redwood, Cecil Blutcher, Denise S. Anderson, Imani Lewis, Jarrett Austin Brown, Joshua Boone, Meeya Davis, Michelle Wilson, Tashiana Washington, W. Tré Davis, Zora Howard

Summary: On a summer night in Harlem during her last months at home before starting college, seventeen-year-old poet Ayanna (Zora Howard) meets Isaiah (Joshua Boone), a charming music producer who has just moved to the city. It’s not long before these two artistic souls are drawn together in a passionate summer romance. But as the highs of youngOn a summer night in Harlem during her last months at home before starting college, seventeen-year-old poet Ayanna (Zora Howard) meets Isaiah (Joshua Boone), a charming music producer who has just moved to the city. It’s not long before these two artistic souls are drawn together in a passionate summer romance. But as the highs of young love give way to jealousy, suspicion, and all-too-real consequences, Ayanna must confront the complexities of the adult world—whether she is ready or not. [IFC Films]… Expand

Director: Rashaad Ernesto Green

Genre(s): Drama, Romance, Music

Rating: NR

Runtime: 90 min

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Justin Chang

Feb 20, 2020

Directed with bristling immediacy by Rashaad Ernesto Green (“Gun Hill Road”), Premature could be classified as a love story, a coming-of-age drama, a cautionary tale (the title offers a clue) and a portrait of young black women and men finding their way in contemporary New York. But it also strikes me as a movie about the uses and occasional uselessness of language, with stop-and-go verbal cadences that seem particularly attentive to what its characters say and don’t say. Read full review

Jeannette Catsoulis

Feb 20, 2020

Every moment rings true, the vividly textured locations and knockabout relationships more visited than created. Read full review

Andrew Crump

Feb 26, 2020

It’s a gorgeous, shattering film. It’s an unapologetically real film about a number of very real subjects, plot-agnostic but driven by character, consequence and compassion. Read full review

Alan Ng

Feb 20, 2020

Premature is teen love portrayed in an adult manner. Its grit and realism distinguish it from other teen love stories that force sappy, profound one-liners meant only for a good trailer moment. Read full review

RogerEbert.com Odie Henderson

Feb 21, 2020

At times, Premature has the same fly-on-the-wall, near-improvisational and casually meandering qualities of a Cassavetes film, though its refreshingly honest and direct depiction of Black sexuality made me think of early Spike Lee or Bill Gunn. Read full review

IndieWire Kate Erbland

Feb 20, 2020

The film’s most telling scene unfortunately marks a steep divide between the fine-tuned first half and a back end that threatens to crumble into cliche. Read full review

Movie Nation Roger Moore

Jan 28, 2020

The performances and the milieu, with its colorful colloquial speech and loving if blundering sisterly relationships, is what sells “Premature” and makes it an indie film well worth your time. Read full review

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Spina_Fla

Jun 27, 2020

Tudo na medida certa, um filme sensível, com o mais belo casal dos últimos anos...BRAVO!!!

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thwewjej

Jul 4, 2020

disappointing, lacking , the main lead was not compelling enough for me to care about her.

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