“I would like a mango,” announces Queen Victoria (Judy Dench). They only grow in India, is the reply. “Well, I’m Empress of India, so have one sent,” she commands.
James Baldwin was a 20th century profile in courage. Black, bold and out (before out was in) as a gay man. He was a prolific essayist, novelist, playwright and poet. But the wordsmithing was in-service to a higher goal: civil rights and social activism.
A poetic love letter to Hollywood. The opening scene. What better way to introduce a film set in Southern California than showing lines of stalled traffic on a freeway?
A thirteen year old girl (Aisholpan Nurgaiv) has a vision. No, it’s not of herself in a new glittery outfit or texting her friends on the latest iPhone, she visions herself as a female eagle huntress and entering an international eagle hunting competition.