Passing Trailer — Rebecca Hall‘s Passing (2021) movie trailer has been released by Netflix. The Passing trailer stars Tessa Thompson, Ruth Negga, Andre Holland, Alexander Skarsgard, Bill Camp, Ashley Ware Jenkins, Antoinette Crowe-Legacy, and Gbenga Akinnagbe. Crew Rebecca Hall wrote the screenplay for Passing. Devonté Hynes created the music for the film. Eduard Grau crafted [...]
Continue reading: Passing (2021) Movie Trailer: Tessa Thompson & Ruth Negga can “pass” as White during NY’s Harlem Renaissance...
Continue reading: Passing (2021) Movie Trailer: Tessa Thompson & Ruth Negga can “pass” as White during NY’s Harlem Renaissance...
- 10/1/2021
- by Rollo Tomasi
- Film-Book
"Things aren't always what they seem..." The New York Film Festival has unveiled an official trailer for the B&w indie film Passing, marking the feature directorial debut of acclaimed British actress Rebecca Hall. This originally premiered at the 2021 Sundance Film Festival earlier in the year, and is playing at the NYFF next as well as the Hamptons and London Film Festivals this fall. Passing follows the unexpected reunion of two high school friends, whose renewed acquaintance ignites a mutual obsession that threatens both of their carefully constructed realities. Set in 1920s in NYC, the title refers to two Black women who can dress up to "pass" as white women and live a totally different life. Described as "an elegant psychological thriller about obsession, repression, and the lies people tell themselves and others to protect their carefully constructed realities." Starring Tessa Thompson & Ruth Negga, plus André Holland, Alexander Skarsgård, Bill Camp,...
- 9/21/2021
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
One of the Sundance Film Festival titles this year expected to spark a bidding war was Passing, the directorial debut from Rebecca Hall. The movie, an ambitious period piece, had plenty of buzz going into the festival, and that continued with largely positive reviews. As expected, the flick generated some chatter, and that in turn has led to a deal out of the fest. Netflix has acquired Passing, presumably with the intention of making it one of their Academy Award hopefuls next year. Whether or not it can appeal to Oscar remains to be seen, but they’ve made their mark out of virtual Park City, after seeing Apple go big for Coda last week. Here’s a bit from the Variety story, which Netflix confirmed after in a tweet: Rebecca Hall’s directorial debut already made a big splash with its Sundance Film Festival premiere — and the film is...
- 2/6/2021
- by Joey Magidson
- Hollywoodnews.com
Rebecca Hall’s directorial debut already made a big splash with its Sundance Film Festival premiere — and the film is set to make even bigger noise, as Netflix is nearing a $16 million deal for worldwide distribution rights on the film, an individual with knowledge of the deal tells Variety.
Tessa Thompson and Ruth Negga star in the project, based on the 1929 novella by Nella Larsen and adapted by Hall, about racial passing in 1920s New York.
“Passing” was one of the buzziest titles heading into the festival, with Endeavor Content handling sales for the picture. The film boasts a starry cast and, after its well-reviewed premiere, a sizable acquisition deal was to be expected.
Set amid the Harlem Renaissance, Irene (Thompson) and Clare (Negga) are two mixed race women, and childhood friends, who reunite in their adulthood, discovering that they now live on two different sides of the color line,...
Tessa Thompson and Ruth Negga star in the project, based on the 1929 novella by Nella Larsen and adapted by Hall, about racial passing in 1920s New York.
“Passing” was one of the buzziest titles heading into the festival, with Endeavor Content handling sales for the picture. The film boasts a starry cast and, after its well-reviewed premiere, a sizable acquisition deal was to be expected.
Set amid the Harlem Renaissance, Irene (Thompson) and Clare (Negga) are two mixed race women, and childhood friends, who reunite in their adulthood, discovering that they now live on two different sides of the color line,...
- 2/3/2021
- by Angelique Jackson
- Variety Film + TV
Rebecca Hall’s Passing has been fifteen years in the making, and that dedication shows in every meticulously crafted frame. Adapted from Nella Larsen’s 1929 novel, the tense, black and white psychological drama is a study in intentional filmmaking. Every detail is an obsession with symbolism and performativity, from the by-turns absent and invasive score courtesy of Devonté Hynes to the elaborate period wardrobe from Marci Rodgers, to the affect with which stars Tessa Thompson and Ruth Negga speak. This obsessiveness folds in on itself, creating a layered profile of reunited childhood friends Irene Redfield (Thompson) and Clare Bellew (Negga) whose muffled desire for one another exposes devastating cracks in each of their lives. By turns stifling and lucid with seduction, Hall’s debut is impressive, even when its atmosphere sometimes overtakes its pace.
The film’s premise hinges on Irene’s failing attempts to keep the daring and promisingly...
The film’s premise hinges on Irene’s failing attempts to keep the daring and promisingly...
- 1/31/2021
- by Shayna Warner
- The Film Stage
It starts in sweltering heat; it ends in freezing weather. And in between, as the temperature gradually drops, Rebecca Hall’s “Passing,” based on Nella Larsen’s 1929 novel, calmly brings the diffuse racial landscape of prohibition-era New York City into crystalline, gorgeously shot focus. This radically intimate exploration of the desperately fraught concept of “passing” — being Black but pretending to be white — ought to be too ambitious for a first-time filmmaker, but Hall’s touch is unerring, deceptively delicate, quiet and immaculate, like that final fall of snow.
On a hot summer day, Irene (Tessa Thompson) is downtown on an errand. Her visible discomfort, the way she tries to retract into herself, to hide behind the gauzy brim of a hat that cuts her eyeline in two, is a silent evocation of how uncomfortable she is under the gazes of the white people around her. This time, anyway, she is...
On a hot summer day, Irene (Tessa Thompson) is downtown on an errand. Her visible discomfort, the way she tries to retract into herself, to hide behind the gauzy brim of a hat that cuts her eyeline in two, is a silent evocation of how uncomfortable she is under the gazes of the white people around her. This time, anyway, she is...
- 1/31/2021
- by Jessica Kiang
- Variety Film + TV
Face half-covered with a beautiful hat, Irene Redfield (Tessa Thompson), a biracial woman, wanders into establishments that would be off-limits to her if she couldn’t pass as white. On one of those undercover escapades, she runs into a friend from her youth, Clare (Ruth Negga), now a blonde living full time as a white wife. The ramifications of their camouflage lie at the center of “Passing,” Rebecca Hall’s impressively refined and superbly acted directorial debut, which she adapted from Nella Larsen’s novel set in 1920s Harlem.
Married to a white man with no clue of her divided identity, Clare claims to find comfort in her lifestyle. But after reconnecting with Irene, a burgeoning desire to return to Black society — as a tourist, with none of the hardships — sets in. Soon she becomes a frequent guest at Irene’s home and befriends her husband Brian (André Holland). With every evening together,...
Married to a white man with no clue of her divided identity, Clare claims to find comfort in her lifestyle. But after reconnecting with Irene, a burgeoning desire to return to Black society — as a tourist, with none of the hardships — sets in. Soon she becomes a frequent guest at Irene’s home and befriends her husband Brian (André Holland). With every evening together,...
- 1/31/2021
- by Carlos Aguilar
- The Wrap
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