A British-born younger son of an immigrant family from Trinidad finds himself adrift between two cultures.
Direction
Ové's documentary eye makes fiction feel like stolen truth.
Acting
Norville's silent breakdowns say everything words can't.
Writing
Conversations that meander until they suddenly gut you.
Director
Horace Ové
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Horace Ové made this after years of documentary work, including the first Black-directed British TV drama. The BFI basically buried it for decades.
That Notting Hill Carnival sequence? Shot during the actual 1975 carnival. The tension between celebration and surveillance is documentary reality bleeding in.
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