A must-see film.
Summary SCREENRANT VIDEO OF THE DAY SCROLL TO CONTINUE WITH CONTENT The homes in Cabrini-Green were demolished in 2011. A Chicago neighborhood comprised of both good and bad, what it represented more than anything was the America we made for ourselves. The residents' legacy now lives in the year's most surprising film, We Grown Now. Writer-director Minhal Baig made waves with 2018’s Hala, a teenage drama with a star-turning performance from Geraldine Viswanathan .
The portrait of life depicted in We Grown Now is neither a naive fantasy nor a gluttonous vision of poverty. It breathes with an ease that brings us into something very realistic but rarely put to film. The story of people growing up in a dangerous neighborhood is just a backdrop, and what filmmakers choose to put on that stage is what determines how much of their stories are dictated by these circumstances.
Cinematographer Pat Scola turns every shot into a dreamscape. His form in the film is a perfect blend of quality-grade cinema and the stylized work of modern art. Slow motion B-roll of Black people from high angles can be found in everything from Moonlight to 21 Savage music videos and Scola seems to have an appreciation for both. If you walked in on a random scene from We Grown Now, you would need no context to appreciate it in all its glory.
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