The setting of this film is in Los Angeles
CA on the night of the 2016 Presidential election with a win by Donald Trump. Cass is an LA club promoter and he
takes an emotional journey with Frieda.
She is a Midwestern visitor and she has a flight home the next day. Frieda challenges Cass to revisit his
broken dreams and he pushes her to discover her dreams.
This film is a melancholic mood
piece. Cass and Frieda have had a chance meeting but they argue, they fight and they make up? In the background, there is the tension about
the Presidential election and how this will end! A LOT of times Cass is angry and very bothered throughout
the movie? He tries to get Frieda
to warm up to him but he can be too forceful for stranger that she has just
met? I didn’t know how this was
going to turn out between them but I did know the outcome of the election. 3* (This movie is OK)
89 min, Romance directed and written by
Qasim Basir, co-writer Samantha Tanner with Omari Hardwick, Meagan Good, Jay
Ellis, Dijon Talton, Kenya Barris, Maryam Basir, Rachel Benyola, David Bianchi,
David Brown, Affion Crockett, Jennifer Elliott, Alexis Fallon, Evelyn Gonzalez,
Wesley Jonathan, Kris D. Lofton.
Note: Imdb 4.7 out of 10, Rotten Tomatoes 86% critic 45% audience,
Metacritic 65 out of 100 with 5 critics, Letterboxd average 2.9* out of 5*, Amazon
Video 2.9* out of 5* with 96 reviews.
Special Note: This movie was filmed in one single take. The crew had to plan for months and
choreograph the changing settings and chance encounters. Director and writer Qasim Basir said
during the Sundance 2018 premier that it was the hardest thing they have ever
done!! Basir was inspired by the
German movie Victoria with its single-take production.
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