Steve McQueen’s Lovers Rock Is a Reggae-Filled Celebration of Black Joy: NYFF Review

The director’s Small Axe anthology kicks off with a hypnotic celebration of Black music and community

Steve McQueen’s Lovers Rock Is a Reggae-Filled Celebration of Black Joy: NYFF Review
Clint Worthington

Consequence of Sound

The Pitch: In London’s West Indian community in 1980, a house party brews. The men haul furniture out to the backyard and bring in huge speakers to replace it, while the women crowd into the kitchen, cooking goat curry and plaintains while singing and laughing with each other. Men and women…

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Steve McQueen’s Lovers Rock Is a Reggae-Filled Celebration of Black Joy: NYFF Review
Clint Worthington

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