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Nickel Boys director Ramel Ross shares 5 films that have impacted him as a film fan and filmmaker
Tale
Based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Colson Whitehead, Nickel Boys chronicles the intense friendship between two young African-Americans as they navigate the harrowing trials of a Florida reform school together.
A harrowing tale of the abuse and mistreatment of young men of color in a reform school
Young Girl Written, composed, and produced by Herschel Dwellingham Performed by Frank Lynch Courtesy of Grass of Home Productions and Publishing (BMI).
While I appreciate the ambition behind it, it unfortunately and somewhat paradoxically distances me from the main character
Told entirely from the subjective POV of the main character and his fellow intern he befriends at the school.
Some early scenes felt a bit contrived and forced with this technique, the dialogue never flowed naturally
Watching this at the Stockholm Film Festival without subtitles was also a bit of a challenge, as it was very difficult to make out the dialogue in certain scenes.
You could understand the events, but the details were lost on me
Despite these objections to the stylistic choices, the story was still somewhat compelling, but overall it could have been even more so with a more traditional narrative.