Synopsis
A single evening at a house party in 1980s West London sets the scene, developing intertwined relationships against a background of violence, romance and music.
Lovers Rock
2020 Directed by Steve McQueen
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27 Nov 2020
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if i don’t get to smoke weed and dance and freak it with my pals and sing a rocky falsetto in the house of somebody i don’t know and keep an eye on a creep with a hat patterned like a yoshi’s island background sometime soon i’m gonna fucking die
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The unironic “Kung Fu Fighting” needle drop was a top 5 most ecstatic moment of quarantine. I’d follow McQueen into the ocean.
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This is one of those where you don’t fully appreciate what it did to you until it’s over. I was craving a rewatch within 30 seconds of finishing it. Or maybe I just wanted to revisit the rich environment McQueen was able to so carefully capture through film. Soaked in shades of orange and hypnotic music, this made me really miss being at parties. I don’t even want to think about how beautiful this would be in a theatre.
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Music as medicine, love as physical pleasure, one night to make the rest of the world melt away. Felt it right in my gut.
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This made me so nostalgic for my mom’s life and her dreams as she would’ve been around this age, around this time. When I go back home I often gravitate towards pictures of her and my aunts, coming to the worst place in the world just given the simplest task of making their entire lives happen in a place that doesn’t want them.
I remember feeling fear, that something artificial and huge was going to ruin the magic or give a knife twist at the end, but it didn’t. It didn’t have to.
Now we get into spoiler territory but 1/4 a star docked because something about the way that the threat of r*pe was used as a plot device…
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Even with all the sensuousness and sway and the killer jukebox this is fraught with tension, the feeling of something illicit here, something simmering. It's a party but it's also still protest.
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most taken with how mcqueen stretches and slows down time to observe the minute textures of the sweat and fabrics and rhythmic motions of this communal sensory expression. it glows and pulses with the dream of an intimate, homemade space of your own that not even sudden interruptions of the outside world can take from you.
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Now that’s how you throw a party. Lovers Rock is the second installment to a five-film series in the Small Axe anthology, that depicts the events one night at a 1980s West London house party, where everything happened, from chaos, budding relationships, music, and everything in between. The film is a mixture of an underground rave and a blues party in the ‘80s, where partygoers went in to experience the lovers rock music to just sing, dance, and vibe into.
First of all, the music was incredibly catchy and captivating, making me lose control and dance along with the characters on-screen. The film also displayed how the blues parties of the ‘80s operate, especially to the unfamiliar ones like me,…
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Me and my people are in this film and i love to see it 😍😍
Most of you who have gotten to know me well know I’m from the Caribbean so this was a delight to see. Big thanks and shoutout to Steve McQueen for capturing the essence of Caribbean people.So many things in this felt familiar. The household felt just like my grandma’s house, everyone yelling, all the women in the kitchen cooking that good Caribbean food, great Caribbean music, the cousins talking smack with each other and your male cousins always thinking they DJ’s making mad noise in the house. Because I currently study in Canada, I have to tone down my accent a lot and I sometimes…