12 Years a Slave

FILM4 11.35PM - 2.15AM ★★★★★

PERIOD DRAMA Based on the memoir of Solomon Northup (Chiwetel Ejiofor), a free New York family man abducted and sold into slavery in the pre-civil War South, Steve Mcqueen’s harrowing film is hard to watch, but it’s also a tale of resilience and survival. Ejiofor is superb, as is Lupita Nyong’o. Dir: Steve Mcqueen 2013, 15

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