Neither P Nor James Baldwin but both Communism and Raul Peck

[David Morris]

Thanks!  I will watch it soon!

On Wed, May 30, 2018 at 10:31 PM Allan Balliett <allan.balliett at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Raul Peck's ("I am not your Negro") newest film, "Young Karl Marx" (not to
> be confused with the Mel Brooks' movie with a similar name) will be
> streaming by Amazon Prime Video on June 1
>
> I've been looking forward to this one for a while!
>
> from wikipedia: The Guardian's review by Peter Bradshaw gave the film four
> out of five stars and stated, "It shouldn't work, but it does, due to the
> intelligence of the acting and the stamina and concentration of the writing
> and directing."[6] In a review for Inside Higher Ed, Scott McLemee
> described the film as "a nuanced and surprisingly accurate portrait of the
> revolutionary as a young man", noting its faithfulness to the historical
> record.[7] Writing for the New Statesman, Suzanne Moore described the film
> as "sparky, brave and totally absorbing" and "in many ways a conventional
> biopic, lifted by its performances, and by its insistence that ideas
> matter".[8] A.O. Scott of the New York Times regarded it as being "both
> intellectually serious and engagingly free-spirited." [9]
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