A fitting schedule. A few days after the visit of Barack Obama in Alabama for the fiftieth anniversary of the march from Selma, also known as “Bloody Sunday,” the cinematic portrait of these painful events, produced by Oprah Winfrey among others, landed on French screens.
While it has been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, Martin Luther King Jr. began heavy talks with the President of the United States , Lyndon B. Johnson, for ensure the implementation of the right to vote to African Americans . He then went at the beginning of 1965 in the city of Selma , which is gradually becoming the center of the movement for equal civil rights. There he will lead one of its most important military , which includes the three historic protest marches culminating at Voting Rights Act of August 1965 .
Tension and emotion
Starting from a very academic staging, often put in biopics coming out in recent years studio majors Hollywood, “Selma” does not draw its own in the least. Indeed, the director Ava DuVernay has a point to impress the audience novices the ins and outs of this historic page . The chronology of events place with care when the portrait of the main protagonists of this famous battle is brushed with gravity. The standoff conducted between Lyndon B. Johnson and Martin Luther King Jr. leads to scenes of great tension . Engaged on the project since 2007, actor David Oyelowo, who had long dreamed of embodying the pastor screen, managed a tour de force in speeches scenes. But emotion is at its peak when the film reconstructs the peaceful marches , tours where events actually took place.
“Selma” by Ava DuVernay with David Oyelowo, Tom Wilkinson and Oprah Winfrey. In theaters, Wednesday, March 11
The trailer for “Selma”:
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