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Lovers Rock offers joyful reprieve from the harder truths in Steve McQueen’s Small Axe anthology – ABC News
A young woman escapes the racism and misogyny of 60s West London for one blissful night of music, dancing and romance in Lovers Rock, by Steve McQueen (Widows).
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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