I Am Not Your Negro
Opening June 16
PG13 • 1h 35m
A film by Raoul Peck
Starring James Baldwin
About the film
In 1979, James Baldwin wrote a letter to his literary agent describing his next project, "Remember This House." The book was to be a revolutionary, personal account of the lives and assassinations of three of his close friends: Medgar Evers, Malcolm X and Martin Luther King, Jr. At the time of Baldwin's death in 1987, he left behind only 30 completed pages of this manuscript. Filmmaker Raoul Peck envisions the book James Baldwin never finished.
Raoul Peck’s “I Am Not Your Negro” is a political statement and a deep look into the mind of James Baldwin, one of the 20th century’s greatest writers and social critics. It is also an unusual and striking cinematic biography with a specific mission: to show America through the eyes of an African-American, scattering shreds of hope amid horror, exasperation and disgust.
Matt Zoller Seitz
Roger Ebert.com
