Passing highlights the gut-wrenching reality of being mixed-race in 1920s America:
), two mixed-race women who were former school friends and happen to run into each other in an upscale Manhattan hotel in prohibition-era America.As we watch the two interact with one another, we can see that they’re both in the act of racial passing as white women – but it’s during these moments that we realise just to what extent.
It’s here that the drama truly begins to unfold as a lonely Clare, in her unhappy marriage with her racist husband, begins to infiltrate Irene’s life, turning up at her home out of the blue and accompanying Irene to her and her husband’s get-togethers at the height of theIrene, while at first not keen to welcome Clare back into her life, eventually does so and Clare is truly the life of the party with a flapper-girl flair that is hard to ignore.
This dramatic turn between the two characters’ dynamic is further enhanced by the eerie jazz score from artist Devonté Hynes and the film which is shot in a boxy yet intimate 4:3, that makes you feel like you’re intruding in on moments that you maybe shouldn’t be apart of.
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