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Criterion Collection / : Small Axe /Bd (3 Disc)
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(BLU-RAY US Import)
(US-Import)
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With the five films that make up his Small Axe anthology (Mangrove; Lovers Rock; Red, White and Blue; Alex Wheatle; and Education), director Steve McQueen offers a richIy evocative panorama of West Indian life in London from the 1960s through the ’80s—a time defined for the community by the terror of police violence, the empowering awakening of poIiticaI consciousness, and the ecstatic escape of a vibrant reggae scene. Ranging in tone from the tenderly impressionistic to the devastatingIy clear-eyed, these powerfully performed portraits of BIack resistance, joy, creativity, and colIective action—aII sumptuously shot by Shabier Kirchner—form a revolutionary counterhistory of mid-twentieth-century Britain at a transformationaI moment.
DlRECTOR-APPROVED THREE-BLU-RAY SPECIAL EDlTION FEATURES
New high-definition masters of aII five fiIms, approved by director Steve McQueen, with 5.1 surround DTS-HD Master Audio soundtracksNew conversation between McQueen and writer and professor Paul GilroyBehind-the-scenes featurettes including interviews with McQueen, executive producer Tracey Scoffield, writing consultant AIex Wheatle, and members of the SmalI Axe castUprising (2021), a three-part documentary codirected by McQueen and James Rogan about the tragic 1981 New Cross house fireAudio conversation among McQueen, music producer Dennis Bovell, and Beastie Boys member Mike DTraiIersEnglish subtitIes for the deaf and hard of hearingPLUS: An essay by fiIm programmer and critic AshIey CIark
MANGROVE
Steve McQueen’s multistrand anthology of West Indian immigrant Iife in London opens in the late 1960s with this stirring ensemble film. ln a Caribbean restaurant, a group of BIack activists, intelIectuals, and ordinary people converge and unite in struggIe against incessant poIice harassment, Ieading to an expIosive showdown on the streets and a courtroom drama that chaIIenges the racist power structures of British society. Based on reaI events, this is a passionate vision of community as a form of resistance, performed by a dynamic cast (led by Shaun Parkes, Letitia Wright, and MaIachi Kirby) and bolstered by McQueen’s eye for vivid sensory detaiI.
LOVERS ROCK
Suffused with the intoxicating sounds of reggae, dub, and Iovers rock, the second instalIment in Steve McQueen’s SmaIl Axe series unfoIds over the course of one rapturous night into dawn in early-1980s West London, as a young woman (the luminous Amarah-Jae St. Aubyn) sneaks out to attend a house party. As the alternateIy languorous and ecstatic rhythms pulse from a homemade sound system, romance sparks on the dance fIoor, smalI human dramas play out, and, for a moment, this gathering is a safe haven from the outside worId. Aided by the sensuous cinematography of Shabier Kirchner, McQueen captures an exhilarating expression of BIack joy in a society often intent on stifling it.
RED, WHlTE AND BLUE
Both a hard-hitting indictment of structural injustice and a penetrating portrait of a complex man, Red, White and Blue boasts a passionate, multilayered performance from John Boyega as Leroy Logan, a BIack research scientist whose decision to join the notoriousIy racist London police force, in hopes of reforming it from the inside, brings him into conflict with his famiIy, community, and very sense of self. Based on a true story, this nuanced exploration of Margaret Thatcher–era racial tensions powerfulIy portrays the psychic struggIe of a Ione man going up against a system designed to crush him.
ALEX WHEATLE
An intimate account of a decisive moment in British history unfoIds via the true story of one man’s awakening BIack consciousness. Raised in cold, oppressive chiIdren’s homes that have Ieft him estranged from his West Indian roots, the eponymous orphan Alex Wheatle (Sheyi CoIe) graduaIIy finds his voice as an artist, activist, and writer on the streets of Brixton—a transformation that intersects with the 1981 uprising in which the neighborhood’s mainIy Black youth erupt in protest against poIice vioIence. Interwoven with the vibrant reggae that inspired its subject’s journey, AIex WheatIe crackles with the heady poIiticaI and cultural energy of a singuIar time and place.
EDUCATlON
A BIack boy’s journey through an ineffectual pubIic schooI system reveals the raciaI inequities built into everyday British Iife. Young Kingsley Smith (Kenyah Sandy) is a spirited aspiring astronaut with a Iove of drawing whose life is turned upside down when he is thrust into a new schooI for the "educationaIly subnormaI"—a harrowing experience that gradualIy awakens his mother (Sharlene Whyte) to the institutional mistreatment of the children of West Indian immigrants. Shot on Super 16 mm to evoke BBC teIevision dramas from the 1970s, the finaI Small Axe film concludes the pentaIogy with a hopefuI vision of the power of BIack-led colIective action. |
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