{"id":167560,"date":"2021-01-31T21:20:42","date_gmt":"2021-01-31T18:20:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/watch-passing-review-rebecca-halls-radically-intimate-powerful-debut\/"},"modified":"2021-01-31T21:20:42","modified_gmt":"2021-01-31T18:20:42","slug":"watch-passing-review-rebecca-halls-radically-intimate-powerful-debut","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/watch-passing-review-rebecca-halls-radically-intimate-powerful-debut\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch &#8216;Passing&#8217; Review: Rebecca Hall&#8217;s Radically Intimate, Powerful Debut."},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_85 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a3c2090638e1\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a3c2090638e1\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/watch-passing-review-rebecca-halls-radically-intimate-powerful-debut\/#%E2%80%9CWatch_Online_%E2%80%98Passing_Review_Rebecca_Halls_Radically_Intimate_Powerful_Debut%E2%80%9D\" >&#8220;Watch Online &#8216;Passing&#8217; Review: Rebecca Hall&#8217;s Radically Intimate, Powerful Debut.&#8221;<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/watch-passing-review-rebecca-halls-radically-intimate-powerful-debut\/#%E2%80%9C%E2%80%98Passing_Review_Rebecca_Halls_Radically_Intimate_Powerful_Debut%E2%80%9D\" >&#8220;&#8216;Passing&#8217; Review: Rebecca Hall&#8217;s Radically Intimate, Powerful Debut.&#8221;<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%E2%80%9CWatch_Online_%E2%80%98Passing_Review_Rebecca_Halls_Radically_Intimate_Powerful_Debut%E2%80%9D\"><\/span>&#8220;Watch Online &#8216;Passing&#8217; Review: Rebecca Hall&#8217;s Radically Intimate, Powerful Debut.&#8221;<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%E2%80%9C%E2%80%98Passing_Review_Rebecca_Halls_Radically_Intimate_Powerful_Debut%E2%80%9D\"><\/span>&#8220;&#8216;Passing&#8217; Review: Rebecca Hall&#8217;s Radically Intimate, Powerful Debut.&#8221;<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<div>\n                        It starts in sweltering heat; it ends in freezing weather. And in between, as the temperature gradually drops, Rebecca Hall\u2019s \u201cPassing,\u201d based on Nella Larsen\u2019s 1929 novel, calmly brings the diffuse racial landscape of prohibition-era New York City into crystalline, gorgeously shot focus. This radically intimate exploration of the desperately fraught concept of \u201cpassing\u201d \u2014 being Black but pretending to be white \u2014 ought to be too ambitious for a first-time filmmaker, but Hall\u2019s touch is unerring, deceptively delicate, quiet and immaculate, like that final fall of snow.<\/p>\n<p>On a hot summer day, Irene (Tessa Thompson) is downtown on an errand. Her visible discomfort, the way she tries to retract into herself, to hide behind the gauzy brim of a hat that cuts her eyeline in two, is a silent evocation of how uncomfortable she is under the gazes of the white people around her. This time, anyway, she is mostly projecting: No one takes much notice, nothing too alarming h<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>ens. But then suddenly, stepping into the full beam of all that projection and sometimes catching the light, there\u2019s Clare (Ruth Negga), a childhood friend visiting from Chicago, now unrecognizably glamorous, with a perfect swoop of blonde hair and arched, lightened brows framing silent-movie-It-Girl eyes.<\/p>\n<p>The meeting between the two is a superbly drawn encounter. Irene\u2019s scrambling panic when this white-lady stranger stares her down, then sets off toward her across a hotel tea room, and how it dissolves from her body into relief and then curiosity when she finally registers her old friend, is a brilliant sampler of Thompson\u2019s extraordinarily embodied performance. And Negga, brittle and dazzling, commands attention exactly the way Clare does in every room she walks into; already in that first, insolent stare of hers there is a touchpaper lit on a long fuse toward tragedy.<\/p>\n<p>Clare has been passing as white for years, chiefly deluding John (Alexander Skarsgard), her loathsomely racist, but rich white husband and the father of her child, whom John believes to be wholly white. But meeting Irene again kindles in Clare a desire to reconnect with the old self she\u2019s been hiding so long. Behind John\u2019s back, she begins to ingratiate herself into her friend\u2019s vastly different life: the handsome Harlem brownstone Irene shares with her tired-eyed, sardonic doctor husband, Brian (Andre Holland), and their two sons, and her work for the community\u2019s Negro Welfare League, alongside well-respected (white) patron and writer Hugh Wentworth (Bill Camp). If Irene is attracted to Clare\u2019s vivacity (and there is definite, if subtle, gay desire between them), Clare is envious of Irene\u2019s stability. No matter that both impressions are false. The things you jettison on the way to the life you think you want are the things you miss most when you get there.<\/p>\n<p>This is a somber story, but it\u2019s filled with unusual light, from the spare, gentle, jazz-piano trills of Devont\u00e9 Hynes\u2019 score to the glowy, glorious black-and white photography from DP Edu Grau (\u201cA Single Man\u201d). Sometimes Grau\u2019s compositions are strikingly strange: Clare, stretching against the sunlight, or an embrace framed so the image is mostly tree branches and sky. But more often, the lovely illuminated monochrome is brought to bear on ordinary things, wispy domestic details like a crack in a bedroom ceiling or a stirring curtain. The camera seems trained, with graceful, unconscious bias, on the things a woman of that period might have noticed. It\u2019s as though Hall\u2019s distinctly feminine attention propels the imagery toward the swinging hemlines and crooked stocking seams of chattering matrons, or the crease on the back collar of Irene\u2019s flowing morning peignoir (a garment that, like all of Marci Rodgers\u2019s costuming, manages to be both beautiful for us to look at, and real for the character to wear).<\/p>\n<p>In terms of overt drama, \u201cPassing\u201d is perhaps a slender story, but it could only feel undernourished if you don\u2019t share Hall\u2019s minute fascination with the tides of envy and longing that flow between these women, and if you somehow are not beguiled by their richly imagined interior lives \u2014 especially Irene\u2019s. Perhaps surprisingly given that she is ostensibly in the less perilous position, the film is really Irene\u2019s story, with Clare just the newest and, for a time, brightest star in her personal firmament.<\/p>\n<p>This is a choice made explicit at times in Jacob Ribikoff\u2019s expressive sound design, which sometimes makes Irene\u2019s voice a nervous boom in her own ears while all else is dampened and dulcet. It\u2019s like we are inside her head: a radical and difficult place to be. Never does Hall\u2019s evident empathy or Thompson\u2019s deep immersion let Irene entirely off the hook: This fascinatingly flawed woman\u2019s motivations are as often questionable as admirable \u2014 her offhandedly classist treatment of her housekeeper; her sly complicity in Wentworth\u2019s cultural tourism; the way she pushes her own discontentments onto her husband and pretends they\u2019re his. \u201cYou are a lot less content with what you\u2019ve got when <em>she<\/em> is not here,\u201d she hisses at Brian, implying a jealousy that really only she feels.<\/p>\n<p>If you are attuned to this unusually elusive wavelength, there is plenty of dramatic tension here, but it\u2019s the tension of inevitability, of arcs of deception that, however long, tend toward exposure in the end. And who is to blame? Perhaps as much as anything, \u201cPassing\u201d is about victimhood, and the twisted way we sometimes claim to be the injured party to avoid the unsavory truth that some hurt is self-inflicted \u2013 the unavoidable consequence of choices made, deliberately or thoughtlessly, a long time back. At their very first meeting, Clare explains her reasons for passing with flippant, worldly, Zelda Fitzgerald ease: She wants the money and <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/social-mediaa\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"1\" title=\"Social Media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">social<\/a> status she believes she can\u2019t attain otherwise. \u201cAll things considered, it\u2019s worth the price,\u201d she declares. 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