Next online film (April 29): Cane River (1982)

[Michael L Ray]

LTATM discussions at the Del Mar Theater are indefinitely suspended. Please join us online via Zoom video conferencing software (details below) where this week we'll discuss a film streaming on Kanopy (anyone with a library card can join Kanopy for free and stream six to twelve movies a month). 

On Wednesday, April 29, at 7pm we will discuss the Drama/Romance - Cane River (1982, 2020). Written, produced, and directed by the late Emmy Award-winning Horace B. Jenkins, who died before the film premiered, and crafted by an entirely African American cast and crew - CANE RIVER is a historically informed love story set in Louisiana's Natchitoches Parish, a "free community of color." Aspiring writer and hopeless romantic Peter - former athlete and scion of an elite Creole family - returns to his hometown and immediately falls for a breathtaking historical tour guide, Maria. Maria's disenfranchised, darker-skinned family disapprove of Peter's family and condemn their burgeoning romance while highlighting the painful legacy of colorism in their tightly-knit community. The lovers must work through Peter's contentious family legacy as privileged, former slave-owning, light-skinned Creoles if they want their romance to survive. 100% on Rotten Tomatoes:

https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/cane_river

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Meeting ID for 4/29: 382 215 7479

Passcode for 4/29: 665576

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