Cousins
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“There is a Particular Way Young People from the Caribbean Diaspora Speak to Their Parents and Interact with Family…”: Mandy Marcus on Her Student Short Film Showcase Short, Cousins
A Brooklyn teen and her Guyanaese cousin, who has traveled to New York for an uncle’s funeral, spend a day together before the wake, an afternoon that arcs from a gentle hang to a more complex articulation of vulnerability and friendship. Mandy Marcus’s incredibly assured and beautifully directed short, Cousins, is confident in its clear-eyed realism. It allows its story to unfold as we observe the girls’ subtly redefine their relationship, with moods and textures shifting as the day moves from afternoon to night and the excellent soundtrack pulses with cues from Sudan Archives and Carlton and the Shoes, among […]
by Scott Macaulay on Jun 4, 2021
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