Mariama Diallo pushes ideas of race and representation to new places with her debut film, 'Master,' which features an award-worthy performance by Regina Hall.
, this onslaught of new material hasn’t exactly lived up to the ample possibilities that horror noir has to offer., which premiered at this year’s Sundance Film Festival and arrives Friday on Prime Video, feels so exciting. Mariama Diallo’s first feature stands out as one of the most intellectually ambitious contributions to the post-Black-horror canon yet.
Even so, Diallo manages to escalate the tension with each of these “casual” encounters and “microaggressions.” The scenes where Jasmine is hanging out with her white roommate Amelia and her white fellow students are especially uncomfortable to watch. For the most part, her white “friends”—if you can even call them that—aren’t outright rude to her so much as they begrudgingly tolerate her presence.
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