In the summer of ’76, as President Jimmy Carter pledges to give government back to the people, tensions run high in a working-class Philadelphia neighborhood where the Black Panthers once flourished. When Marcus returns—having bolted years earlier—his homecoming isn’t exactly met with fanfare. His former movement brothers blame him for an unspeakable betrayal. Only his best friend’s widow, Patricia, appreciates Marcus’s predicament, which both unites and paralyzes them. As Patricia’s daughter compels the two comrades to confront their past, history repeats itself in dangerous ways.
Night Catches Us masterfully reckons with the complexity of its characters’ revolutionary ideologies and internal desires. Bell-bottoms, Afros, potlucks, and Caddies set the scene as the film potently interweaves political media with an evocative soul-inspired score, summoning a vivid sense of place and time. The golden light that bathes characters’ faces seems to express the promise—and elusiveness—of the necessary change Marcus and Patricia struggle for so dearly—each by separate means.
克拉克·盖博,玛丽莲·梦露,蒙哥马利·克利夫特,瑟尔玛·瑞特,埃里·瓦拉赫,詹姆斯·巴顿,凯文·麦卡锡,埃斯特尔温伍德,Peggy Barton,雷克斯·贝尔,Ryall Bowker,Frank Fanelli Sr.,约翰·休斯顿,Bobby LaSalle,Philip Mitchell,拉尔夫·罗伯茨,J. Lewis Smith,玛丽埃塔·特里
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陈家乐
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