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- HBO
- HBO
Summary The HBO special based on the 2018 Apollo Theater staging of Ta-Nehisi Coates' book about white supremacy in America features readings from Coates' book, animation, documentary footage and archival footage.
- HBO
- HBO
Between the World and Me
Season 1 Premiere: Nov 21, 2020
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Summary The HBO special based on the 2018 Apollo Theater staging of Ta-Nehisi Coates' book about white supremacy in America features readings from Coates' book, animation, documentary footage and archival footage.
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Metascore
Universal Acclaim
Based on 11 Critic Reviews
85
100% Positive
11 Reviews
11 Reviews
0% Mixed
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0% Negative
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Coates' writing packs clarity into its lyricism, and at just shy of an hour and 20 minutes Forbes' film honors the book's relative economy while enriching every frame with poignance, augmented by Bradford Young's arresting cinematography. ... The result is magnificently solemn and essentially American.
Between The World And Me is not some hopeful, optimistic assessment of what’s to become of this country or the Black people who built it. Instead, Coates, through Forbes’ lens, offers the truth.
The TV adaptation is a worthy screen translation of Coates’ monumental work, with archival footage, original animation and hip-hop tracks lending historical and emotional texture to the author’s words.
There’s something lost in this translation between page and screen that depends upon this many performers; their interpretations are still powerful, but immediately more scattered, and it’s hard not to wonder if a more pared down version might have been even more effective. And yet it’s even harder to imagine which speakers should get cut, as nearly all convincingly ground themselves in the material.
Sometimes the material is too busy for its own good, with the supplemental images fighting for dominance when the words are more than enough to carry the feeling. But when it fires on all cylinders, this is a very effective, powerful companion piece to its source.
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Production Company:
- One Story Up Productions
Initial Release Date: Nov 21, 2020
Number of seasons: 0 Seasons
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Awards
The Webby Awards
• 1 Win & 2 Nominations
Gracie Allen Awards
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
Critics Choice Awards
• 1 Nomination