Meeting the Man: James Baldwin in Paris (1970)
Meeting the Man: James Baldwin in Paris
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James Baldwin was certainly one of the great names of the civil rights movement in the United States from the 1960s. The writer, poet, and activist - openly gay - put together an incredible and remarkable body of work that reveals much of what he fought for. In the early 1970s, a group of white filmmakers decided to follow him to Paris, where he was staying. The result is this short documentary created from the friction of world views, as Baldwin had no qualms about provoking the vision of his interviewees, still trapped in the bubble they lived in and in arrogance. The result is a provocative film that seeks to take those who, like the filmmakers, could not see beyond their own windows of the world out of their comfort zone.
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A documentary portrait of James Baldwin, one of the towering figures of 20th-century American literature, Black culture and political thought, filmed in Paris. The iconic writer is captured in several symbolic locations in the city, where he was living at the time, including the Place de la Bastille
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