Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 93 min
- Age rating
- R
- Language
- English
- Country
- Belgium, France, United States
Why tonight?
- Under two hours — there is still an evening on the other side of it.
- Reviewed better than most films in the catalogue.
The story
Working from the text of James Baldwin’s unfinished final novel, director Raoul Peck creates a meditation on what it means to be Black in the United States.
- society
- race politics
- interview
- martin luther king
- racism
- 1950s
- 1960s
- malcom x
- negritude
- contestation
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
Samuel L. Jackson
Narrator (voice)
JoeyStarr
Narrateur (voix-off)
Arnold Schwarzenegger
Self
Billy Dee Williams
Self
- Rod Steiger — Self
- Directed
- Raoul Peck
- Written
- James Baldwin
Production
- Rating
- 7.7 / 10 · 530 ratings
- Studio
- Independent Lens, RTBF, ARTE, Shelter Prod, RTS, Velvet Film
If this stayed with you
Then these are the nearest things Cue holds — chosen for what they share with it, not for what happens to be popular.
