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Alma's Rainbow

1994, Movie, 1h 25min

A rediscovered treasure of independent cinema, this incisive comedic drama follows Rainbow Gold (Victoria Gabrielle Platt), a teenager coming of age in Brooklyn, as she looks to two vastly different models of womanhood: her straitlaced mother, Alma (Kim Weston-Moran), who runs a hair salon in the parlor of their home and disapproves of her daughter’s newfound interest in boys; and her free-spirited, larger-than-life aunt Ruby (Mizan Kirby), who has just returned from Paris after a ten-year absence and whose presence shakes up the household. Bursting with the bold Day-Glo colors of nineties fashion, this dazzling feature from feminist filmmaker and animator Ayoka Chenzira grapples with questions of Black women’s sexuality, agency, and self-image from a multigenerational perspective.

Country: United States

Director:

Ayoka Chenzira

Cast:

Isaiah Washington,

Victoria Gabrielle Platt,

Mizan Nunes,

Lee Dobson

Reviews

Critic Cath Clarke

rated

...early 90s coming-of-ager is gem of black female empowerment.

Read full review at The Guardian

Critic Marina Ashioti

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...a lovely, tactile film with such a nuanced depiction of the ever-shifting tides of mother/daughter dynamics, overflowing with love and care as much as it is with a vibrant colour palette and gorgeous textures.

Read full review at Little White Lies