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Steve McQueen’s Lovers Rock offers joyful reprieve from his harder truths – The New Daily
Director Steve McQueen (Widows, 12 Years a Slave) time travels back to 1980 to honour the marginalised but much-mythologised reggae house-party scene.
Director Steve McQueen (Widows, 12 Years a Slave) time travels back to 1980 to honour a marginalised but much-mythologised reggae house-party scene in Lovers Rock the high point of his five-part anthology Small Axe.
The series of stand-alone films named for a proverb popularised by a defiant Bob Marley song: “If you are the big tree, we are the small axe” are being broadcast on the BBC in McQueen’s home country, powerfully inserting themselves into mainstream discussions of British identity, history…
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