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Looking for Langston is a British film of genre Drama directed by Isaac Julien released in USA on 31 october 1989
Looking for Langston (1989)
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Add to a movie listReleased in USA 31 october 1989
Length 42minutes
Directed by Isaac Julien
OriginUnited-kingdom
Genres Drama
Rating66%
Looking for Langston is a 1989 British black-and-white film, directed by Isaac Julien and produced by Sankofa Film & Video Productions. It combines authentic archival newsreel footage of Harlem in the 1920s with scripted scenes to produce a non-linear impressionistic storyline celebrating black gay identity and desire during the artistic and cultural period known as the Harlem Renaissance in New York. The film is a short, running at about 42 minutes.
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Il ne s'agit pas d'une biographie du poète noir-américain homosexuel Langston Hughes, mais d'un hommage à la Renaissance de Harlem depuis une perspective noire et homosexuelle.Comments
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