STORY: Celeste and Jesse Forever: Sundance Film Review
Performances are strong across the board here, and the picture's solid, understated visuals ground the story further. The pace feels leaden on occasion, but that's hardly inappropriate for a film about lives interrupted by a five-to-eight year prison sentence.
Venue: Sundance Film Festival, U.S. Dramatic Competition
Production Companies: Kandoo Films, Forward Movement
Cast: Emayatzy Corinealdi, David Oyelowo, Omari Hardwick, Lorraine Toussaint, Edwina Findley, Sharon Lawrence, Dondre Whitfield, Troy Curvey III, Maya Gilbert
Director-Screenwriter: Ava DuVernay
Producers: Howard Barish, Ava DuVernay, Paul Garnes
Director of photography: Bradford Young
Music: Kathryn Bostic
Costume designer: Stacy Beverly
Editor: Spencer Averick
Sales: Ben Weiss, Paradigm
No rating, 100 minutes