WAVES HHHHH
EIGHTEEN-YEAR-OLD high school student Tyler Williams (Kelvin Harrison Jr) is a star athlete on the wrestling team thanks to relentless training and sparring with his domineering father, Ronald (Sterling K Brown).
His dreams of excellence are threatened by an injury to Tyler’s shoulder, which requires surgery to avoid permanent, irreversible damage.
Instead, the teenager defies his doctor’s grim prognosis and secretly pops his father’s prescription painkillers.
But events spiral out of control when his girlfriend Alexis (Alexa Demie) makes a life-changing discovery.
Waves is a beautifully nuanced drama of two halves, which works best in its opening salvo, anchored by a mesmerising performance from Harrison Jr.
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SEBERG HHHHH
IN MAY 1968, actress Jean Seberg (Kristen Stewart) leaves Paris, her screenwriter husband Romain Gary (Yvan Attal) and young son Diego (Gabriel Sky) to travel to Los
Angeles to audition for the role of Elizabeth in Paint Your Wagon.
The flight is interrupted by outspoken black civil right activist Hakim Jamal (Anthony Mackie), who argues that Malcolm X’s widow should be given a seat in first class.
His impassioned rhetoric impresses Jean, who raises a fist in solidarity with the Black Panthers on the airport runway as photographers swarm.
Soon after, Jean becomes romantically entangled with Hakim, which brings her to the attention of the FBI.
Seberg dramatises the persecution of the eponymous icon of the French New Wave with a disjointed narrative counterbalanced by eye-catching period details.
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